diff --git a/debian/patches/1001_fix_metainformation.patch b/debian/patches/1001_fix_metainformation.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f8b7c6d..0000000
--- a/debian/patches/1001_fix_metainformation.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Description: Fix Makefile.am to include the correct info-files
- For whatever reasons, the released frei0r files are different from the tagged
- releases (on github), by renaming some crucial files.
-Author: IOhannes m zmölnig
-Last-Update: 2020-01-29
----
-This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
---- frei0r.orig/Makefile.am
-+++ frei0r/Makefile.am
-@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
- pkgconfig_DATA = frei0r.pc
- 
- docsdir = ${prefix}/share/doc/${PACKAGE}
--docs_DATA = README.md ChangeLog TODO AUTHORS 
-+docs_DATA = README.txt ChangeLog.txt AUTHORS.txt
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 13969dd..e69de29 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1001_fix_metainformation.patch