diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/HttpHeadersInjectAdapter.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/HttpHeadersInjectAdapter.java
index dc393f1552..3135532655 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/HttpHeadersInjectAdapter.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/HttpHeadersInjectAdapter.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package datadog.trace.instrumentation.apachehttpclient;
 import datadog.trace.instrumentation.api.AgentPropagation;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
 
-// not sure why, but gradle build fails without fully qualified HttpUriRequest class name
 public class HttpHeadersInjectAdapter implements AgentPropagation.Setter<HttpUriRequest> {
 
   public static final HttpHeadersInjectAdapter SETTER = new HttpHeadersInjectAdapter();