diff --git a/substrate/Cargo.lock b/substrate/Cargo.lock
index 412d6191d3..c10da00c18 100644
--- a/substrate/Cargo.lock
+++ b/substrate/Cargo.lock
@@ -5032,7 +5032,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "parking_lot 0.9.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "sc-block-builder 2.0.0",
  "sc-client-api 2.0.0",
- "sc-client-db 2.0.0",
  "sc-executor 2.0.0",
  "sc-telemetry 2.0.0",
  "sp-api 2.0.0",
diff --git a/substrate/client/Cargo.toml b/substrate/client/Cargo.toml
index b62a004416..e87ce727dd 100644
--- a/substrate/client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/substrate/client/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ tracing = "0.1.10"
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.7.0"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-client-db = { package = "sc-client-db", path = "./db", features = ["kvdb-rocksdb"] }
 test-client = { package = "substrate-test-runtime-client", path = "../test/utils/runtime/client" }
 kvdb-memorydb = "0.1.2"
 panic-handler = { package = "sp-panic-handler", path = "../primitives/panic-handler" }