diff --git a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/values/VarSortedBytesImpl.java b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/values/VarSortedBytesImpl.java
index e352807b033..36caf0b5082 100644
--- a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/values/VarSortedBytesImpl.java
+++ b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/values/VarSortedBytesImpl.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexOutput;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Counter;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.packed.Direct64;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.packed.PackedInts;
 
 // Stores variable-length byte[] by deref, ie when two docs