diff --git a/src/git2/debian/changelog b/src/git2/debian/changelog
index 2d6b07d..ef90456 100644
--- a/src/git2/debian/changelog
+++ b/src/git2/debian/changelog
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 rust-git2 (0.13.11-1) UNRELEASED-FIXME-AUTOGENERATED-DEBCARGO; urgency=medium
 
+  * Package git2 0.13.11 from crates.io using debcargo 2.4.3
+  * Drop the zlib-ng-compat feature, the ftpmasters are rejecting new
+    rust feature packages at the moment and the zlib-ng option in
+    libz-sys seems to be broken in Debian anyway (see bug 972361)
+
+  [ Ximin Luo ]
   * Team upload.
   * Package git2 0.13.11 from crates.io using debcargo 2.4.3
 
- -- Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>  Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:52:11 +0100
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@debian.org>  Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:44:19 +0000
 
 rust-git2 (0.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/src/git2/debian/patches/remove-zlib-ng-compat.patch b/src/git2/debian/patches/remove-zlib-ng-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0b1925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/git2/debian/patches/remove-zlib-ng-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Index: git2/Cargo.toml
+===================================================================
+--- git2.orig/Cargo.toml
++++ git2/Cargo.toml
+@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ https = ["libgit2-sys/https", "openssl-s
+ ssh = ["libgit2-sys/ssh"]
+ ssh_key_from_memory = ["libgit2-sys/ssh_key_from_memory"]
+ unstable = []
+-zlib-ng-compat = ["libgit2-sys/zlib-ng-compat"]
+ [target."cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = \"macos\")))".dependencies.openssl-probe]
+ version = "0.1"
+ optional = true
diff --git a/src/git2/debian/patches/series b/src/git2/debian/patches/series
index 1c3e74a..06473fa 100644
--- a/src/git2/debian/patches/series
+++ b/src/git2/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 disable-vendor.patch
+remove-zlib-ng-compat.patch