diff --git a/debian/patches/relax-json.patch b/debian/patches/relax-json.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 317beb2..0000000
--- a/debian/patches/relax-json.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/omniauth-twitter.gemspec
-+++ b/omniauth-twitter.gemspec
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
-   s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
-   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
- 
--  s.add_dependency 'json', '~> 1.3'
-+  s.add_dependency 'json', '>= 1.3'
-   s.add_dependency 'omniauth-oauth', '~> 1.1'
-   s.add_development_dependency 'bundler', '~> 1.0'
- end
diff --git a/debian/patches/remove-simplecov.patch b/debian/patches/remove-simplecov.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index accf450..0000000
--- a/debian/patches/remove-simplecov.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Description: Remove simplecov
- It is just used for code coverage.
-Author: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <praveen@debian.org>
-Last-Update: 2013-06-12
-
-Index: ruby-omniauth-twitter/spec/spec_helper.rb
-===================================================================
---- ruby-omniauth-twitter.orig/spec/spec_helper.rb
-+++ ruby-omniauth-twitter/spec/spec_helper.rb
-@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
- $:.unshift File.expand_path('..', __FILE__)
- $:.unshift File.expand_path('../../lib', __FILE__)
--require 'simplecov'
--SimpleCov.start do
--  minimum_coverage(94.59)
--end
-+#require 'simplecov'
-+#SimpleCov.start do
-+#  minimum_coverage(94.59)
-+#end
- require 'rspec'
- require 'rack/test'
- require 'webmock/rspec'
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 96935be..e69de29 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-remove-simplecov.patch
-relax-json.patch