diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 1cc5ff5..72b18a8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -58,11 +58,7 @@ gobject_dep = dependency('gobject-2.0', version: glib_version_info)
 #  everything else
 json_glib_dep = dependency('json-glib-1.0')
 libarchive_dep = dependency('libarchive', version: '>= 3.0.0')
-libsoup_dep = dependency('libsoup-3.0', required: false)
-#    fallback to libsoup2
-if not libsoup_dep.found()
   libsoup_dep = dependency('libsoup-2.4')
-endif
 libxml_dep = dependency('libxml-2.0', version: '>= 2.6.0')
 
 #  common dependencies
