diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 186ab9650..92ec9d844 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 name: Continuous Integration
-
-on:
-  # run this workflow on pull_request activity
-  # this includes opening and pushing more commits
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ master, 3.21.x, 3.18.x ]
-
-jobs:
-  build_cfengine_hub_package:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-using-buildscripts.yml
-    secrets: inherit
-
-  deployment_tests:
-    needs: build_cfengine_hub_package
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/deployment-tests.yml
-    secrets: inherit
+#
+#on:
+#  # run this workflow on pull_request activity
+#  # this includes opening and pushing more commits
+#  pull_request:
+#    branches: [ master, 3.21.x, 3.18.x ]
+#
+#jobs:
+#  build_cfengine_hub_package:
+#    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-using-buildscripts.yml
+#    secrets: inherit
+#
+#  deployment_tests:
+#    needs: build_cfengine_hub_package
+#    uses: ./.github/workflows/deployment-tests.yml
+#    secrets: inherit
diff --git a/deps-packaging/lcov/README b/deps-packaging/lcov/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a502a5b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps-packaging/lcov/README
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+lcov is a continuous integration test dependency.
+
+it is not packaged in any way with the resulting CFEngine agent or hub packages.
+
+we are not using the perl module so that is skipped during packaging.
diff --git a/deps-packaging/lcov/cfbuild-lcov.spec b/deps-packaging/lcov/cfbuild-lcov.spec
index 8abb3f504..98b5b10d1 100644
--- a/deps-packaging/lcov/cfbuild-lcov.spec
+++ b/deps-packaging/lcov/cfbuild-lcov.spec
@@ -22,9 +22,14 @@ for easy navigation within the file structure.
 %build
 exit 0
 
+# spreadsheet.py is part of tests and requires python3, python2.75 is current default in centos-7 build host
+%define __python %{python3}
+
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT PREFIX=/usr CFG_DIR=/etc
+# cleanup bits we don't need to package
+rm /usr/lib/lcov/lcovutil.pm
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -37,13 +42,17 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 /usr/bin/geninfo
 /usr/bin/genpng
 /usr/bin/lcov
-/usr/share/man/man1
+/usr/bin/perl2lcov
+/usr/bin/py2lcov
+/usr/bin/xml2lcov
+/usr/bin/xml2lcovutil.py
+/usr/lib/lcov/lcovutil.pm
+/usr/share/lcov
 /usr/share/man/man1/gendesc.1.gz
 /usr/share/man/man1/genhtml.1.gz
 /usr/share/man/man1/geninfo.1.gz
 /usr/share/man/man1/genpng.1.gz
 /usr/share/man/man1/lcov.1.gz
-/usr/share/man/man5
 /usr/share/man/man5/lcovrc.5.gz
 
 %changelog