diff --git a/debian/patches/00_debian-copying.diff b/debian/patches/00_debian-copying.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index b05901f13..000000000
--- a/debian/patches/00_debian-copying.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-Description: don't install useless COPYING file
-Forwarded: not-neded
-
---- a/Makefile.am
-+++ b/Makefile.am
-@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
- docfilesdir = $(docdir)
- docfiles_DATA = README \
- 				README.html \
--				ChangeLog \
--				COPYING \
- 				THANKS \
- 				THANKS.artists \
- 				AUTHORS 
---- a/Makefile.in
-+++ b/Makefile.in
-@@ -298,8 +298,6 @@
- docfilesdir = $(docdir)
- docfiles_DATA = README \
- 				README.html \
--				ChangeLog \
--				COPYING \
- 				THANKS \
- 				THANKS.artists \
- 				AUTHORS 
diff --git a/debian/patches/01_configure-ac.diff b/debian/patches/01_configure-ac.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index cae1e2368..000000000
--- a/debian/patches/01_configure-ac.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-Description: don't require python headers to remove build-dep on python-dev and python-gtk2-dev
-Author: Yann Leboulanger <asterix@lagaule.org>
-Origin: upstream,http://hg.gajim.org/gajim/diff/252bb3cf2c59/configure.ac
-Last-Update: 2011-05-07
-
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -36,25 +36,10 @@
- AM_NLS
- 
- 
--dnl ****
--dnl pygtk and gtk+
--dnl ****
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PYGTK], [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0])
--AC_SUBST(PYGTK_CFLAGS)
--AC_SUBST(PYGTK_LIBS)
--PYGTK_DEFS=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=defsdir pygtk-2.0`
--AC_SUBST(PYGTK_DEFS)
--
--AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
--if test "x$PYTHON" = "x:"; then
--	AC_MSG_ERROR([Python not found])
--fi
--
- ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS="\${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"
- AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS)
- 
--AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS(,[AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find Python headers)])
--AC_SUBST([PYTHON_INCLUDES])
-+AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
- 
- dnl ****
- dnl enable installation in python-2.x/site-packages/gajim
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
deleted file mode 100644
index 789adce6e..000000000
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-00_debian-copying.diff
-01_configure-ac.diff