diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fae48fc48a..bf98fd7ef7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ gtk+3.0 (3.23.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * debian/patches/m4macros-Set-a-serial-number.patch: Drop, included in this
     release.
   * debian/control{,.in}: Bump libepoxy (1.4) and pango (1.41.0) per upstream.
+  * debian/patches/gdk-x11-Check-if-we-have-access-to-GL-before-using-G.patch:
+    Drop - GTK now calls epoxy_has_glx() directly so this bypassed approach
+    isn't necessary.
 
  -- Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:08:52 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/gdk-x11-Check-if-we-have-access-to-GL-before-using-G.patch b/debian/patches/gdk-x11-Check-if-we-have-access-to-GL-before-using-G.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 18ed4f4a4f..0000000000
--- a/debian/patches/gdk-x11-Check-if-we-have-access-to-GL-before-using-G.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-From: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:07:01 +0000
-Subject: gdk/x11: Check if we have access to GL before using GLX API
-
-If the platform does not have access to libGL then any call to GL and
-GLX API through libepoxy will fail with an assertion. Until such time
-that libepoxy exposes API for us to use, we can simply dlopen libGL
-ourselves and do a symbol check.
-
-[smcv: fix typo]
-
-Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775279
-Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847366
-Applied-upstream: no, GTK+ 4 added a dependency on newer libepoxy instead
----
- gdk/x11/gdkglcontext-x11.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/gdk/x11/gdkglcontext-x11.c b/gdk/x11/gdkglcontext-x11.c
-index 0819f89..d8ddf0f 100644
---- a/gdk/x11/gdkglcontext-x11.c
-+++ b/gdk/x11/gdkglcontext-x11.c
-@@ -854,6 +854,32 @@ gdk_x11_screen_init_gl (GdkScreen *screen)
-   if (_gdk_gl_flags & GDK_GL_DISABLE)
-     return FALSE;
- 
-+  /* This is an ad hoc check that bypasses libepoxy to check if libGL.so is
-+   * unavailable, and disables GL support if that's the case
-+   *
-+   * Ideally, libepoxy should do this for us, but that would require adding
-+   * new API, and we'd need a fallback anyway.
-+   */
-+  {
-+    Bool (* fp_glXQueryExtension) (Display *dpy, int *err_base, int *ev_base);
-+    GModule *module = g_module_open ("libGL.so.1", 0);
-+
-+    if (module == NULL)
-+      {
-+        GDK_NOTE (OPENGL, g_message ("No libGL.so found"));
-+        return FALSE;
-+      }
-+
-+    if (!g_module_symbol (module, "glXQueryExtension", (gpointer *) &fp_glXQueryExtension))
-+      {
-+        GDK_NOTE (OPENGL, g_message ("No glXQueryExtension symbol found"));
-+        g_module_close (module);
-+        return FALSE;
-+      }
-+
-+    g_module_close (module);
-+  }
-+
-   dpy = gdk_x11_display_get_xdisplay (display);
- 
-   if (!glXQueryExtension (dpy, &error_base, &event_base))
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 7d510f5526..716687700b 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@
 060_ignore-random-icons.patch
 no-accessibility-dump.patch
 reftest-known-fail.patch
-gdk-x11-Check-if-we-have-access-to-GL-before-using-G.patch