diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/stop.go b/pkg/kubectl/stop.go
index 828b43dcc52..85f67ef9a99 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/stop.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/stop.go
@@ -364,8 +364,7 @@ func (reaper *DeploymentReaper) Stop(namespace, name string, timeout time.Durati
 	deployment, err := reaper.updateDeploymentWithRetries(namespace, name, func(d *extensions.Deployment) {
 		// set deployment's history and scale to 0
 		// TODO replace with patch when available: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/20527
-		zero := 0
-		d.Spec.RevisionHistoryLimit = &zero
+		d.Spec.RevisionHistoryLimit = util.IntPtr(0)
 		d.Spec.Replicas = 0
 		// TODO: un-pausing should not be necessary, remove when this is fixed:
 		// https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/20966