diff --git a/scripts/validate-minimum-dependency-versions b/scripts/validate-minimum-dependency-versions
--- a/scripts/validate-minimum-dependency-versions
+++ b/scripts/validate-minimum-dependency-versions
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
 pip install -e . -r "$min_requirements" python-ldap python-pam 2> >(tee "$log" >&2)
 
 # Strip out the known Python 2.7 deprecation message.
-sed -i '/DEPRECATION: Python 2\.7 will reach the end of its life/d' "$log"
+sed -i '/DEPRECATION: Python 2\.7 /d' "$log"
 
 # Treat any message on stderr as a problem, for the caller to interpret.
 if [ -s "$log" ]; then