diff --git a/debian/patches/1001_search-for-libsystemd-dev.patch b/debian/patches/1001_search-for-libsystemd-dev.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0654710..0000000
--- a/debian/patches/1001_search-for-libsystemd-dev.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-Description: Search for libsystemd rather than libsystemd-login
-Author: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
-Abstract:
- In Debian stretch and beyond all systemd headers are provided
- via the libsystemd-dev. Thus, src:packages have to B-D on
- libsystemd-dev (and not libsystemd-login-dev) and also
- configure scripts need to be satisfied if libsystemd is
- installed.
- .
- This patch is not 100% suitable for upstream, because the generic
- approach would be to test for libsystemd first, if not present,
- test for libsystemd-login and only if both are non-present on the
- build system, a failture should be triggered.
-
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@
- have_systemd=no
- AC_ARG_ENABLE(systemd, AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-systemd], [disable systemd support]),,enable_systemd=no)
- 	if test "x$enable_systemd" != "xno"; then
--		PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SYSTEMD, [ libsystemd-login >= $SYSTEMD_REQUIRED ],
--					   [ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SYSTEMD_EX, [ libsystemd-login = $SYSTEMD_EXCLUDED ],
-+		PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SYSTEMD, [ libsystemd >= $SYSTEMD_REQUIRED ],
-+					   [ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SYSTEMD_EX, [ libsystemd = $SYSTEMD_EXCLUDED ],
- 									   AC_MSG_ERROR([*** systemd v43 found but it has a bug in its header files (uses C++ keyword)]), # Can't use systemd v43
- 									   [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SYSTEMD, 1, [Define if systemd is available]) have_systemd=yes])],
- 					   have_systemd=no)
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 081dca6..88c5e2e 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-1001_search-for-libsystemd-dev.patch
 1002_stdc++11.patch