diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4b70d65..3d34e84 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Tim Potter <tpot@hpe.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-golang, golang-any, golang-yaml.v2-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-golang (>= 1.31), golang-any, golang-yaml.v2-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Homepage: https://github.com/imdario/mergo
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-imdario-mergo.git
diff --git a/debian/patches/0002-fix-test-fixture-locations.patch b/debian/patches/0002-fix-test-fixture-locations.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ad2271f..0000000
--- a/debian/patches/0002-fix-test-fixture-locations.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Description: Modify test fixture paths
- The Debian packging process executes Go tests in a subdirectory
- which is not handled correctly.  The path to each test fixture
- file has been updated to reflect this.
-Author: Tim Potter <tpot@hpe.com>
-Forwarded: no
----
-This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
-Index: golang-github-imdario-mergo/mergo_test.go
-===================================================================
---- golang-github-imdario-mergo.orig/mergo_test.go
-+++ golang-github-imdario-mergo/mergo_test.go
-@@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ func TestMaps(t *testing.T) {
- }
- 
- func TestYAMLMaps(t *testing.T) {
--	thing := loadYAML("testdata/thing.yml")
--	license := loadYAML("testdata/license.yml")
-+	thing := loadYAML("../../../../../testdata/thing.yml")
-+	license := loadYAML("../../../../../testdata/license.yml")
- 	ft := thing["fields"].(map[interface{}]interface{})
- 	fl := license["fields"].(map[interface{}]interface{})
- 	expectedLength := len(ft) + len(fl)
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 4a5a7c3..89ecc4d 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 0001-use-newer-yaml-library.patch
-0002-fix-test-fixture-locations.patch