diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index bc52079809..2e57a435df 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -898,8 +898,7 @@ required_programs = [
 
 required_programs_groups = [
   {'name':'rpcgen', 'prog':['rpcgen', 'portable-rpcgen']},
-  # Drop the rst2html (aka HTML4) variants once we stop supporting Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
-  {'name':'rst2html', 'prog':['rst2html5', 'rst2html5.py', 'rst2html5-3', 'rst2html', 'rst2html.py', 'rst2html-3']},
+  {'name':'rst2html', 'prog':['rst2html5', 'rst2html5.py', 'rst2html5-3']},
   {'name':'rst2man', 'prog':['rst2man', 'rst2man.py', 'rst2man-3']},
 ]