diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/BUILD b/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/BUILD
index cab33333da4..dcaed8131f3 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/BUILD
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/BUILD
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ go_test(
     deps = [
         "//cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm:go_default_library",
         "//cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta2:go_default_library",
-        "//cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/validation:go_default_library",
         "//cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/options:go_default_library",
         "//cmd/kubeadm/app/componentconfigs:go_default_library",
         "//cmd/kubeadm/app/constants:go_default_library",