diff --git a/doc/xml/release.xml b/doc/xml/release.xml
index 2c7aae216..f0d7a0b72 100644
--- a/doc/xml/release.xml
+++ b/doc/xml/release.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
                     </release-item>
 
                     <release-item>
-                        <p>Remove RHEL package patch since it has been committed upstream.</p>
+                        <p>Remove RHEL and Debian package patches since they have been committed upstream.</p>
                     </release-item>
                 </release-development-list>
             </release-test-list>
diff --git a/test/patch/debian-package.patch b/test/patch/debian-package.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8df7f5675..000000000
--- a/test/patch/debian-package.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
---- control
-+++ control
-@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@
- Depends: libdbd-pg-perl,
-          postgresql-common,
-          ${misc:Depends},
--         ${perl:Depends},
-          ${shlibs:Depends}
--Suggests: pgbackrest-doc
-+Suggests: pgbackrest-doc,
-+          libio-socket-ssl-perl,
-+          libxml-libxml-perl
- Description: Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
-  pgBackRest is a simple, reliable backup and restore system for PostgreSQL
-  that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads.
---- pgbackrest.install
-+++ pgbackrest.install
-@@ -1,2 +1 @@
- debian/pgbackrest.conf etc/
--lib/pgBackRest usr/share/perl5/
-diff -Naur /backrest/test/.vagrant/package/u18/src/debian.old/rules /backrest/test/.vagrant/package/u18/src/debian.new/rules
---- rules
-+++ rules
-@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
- MANTEMPLATE="${CURDIR}/doc/output/man/pgbackrest.1.txt"
- 
- #export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
--#DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS = 1
--#include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk
-+include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk
- 
- #export DH_VERBOSE = 1
- 
-@@ -20,22 +19,16 @@
- 	  -t pgbackrest \
- 	  -s 1 \
- 	  ${MANTEMPLATE} > ${CURDIR}/doc/output/man/pgbackrest.1
--	cd $(CURDIR)/libc; perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor NO_PACKLIST=1
--	make -C $(CURDIR)/libc/
--	make -C $(CURDIR)/src/
-+	make -C $(CURDIR)/src CEXTRA="$(CFLAGS)"
- 	dh_auto_build
- 
- override_dh_auto_test:
--	test "$(DEB_TARGET_ARCH_ENDIAN)" = "little" && \
--		cd $(CURDIR)/libc; make test
- 	dh_auto_test
- 
- override_dh_auto_clean:
- 	rm -rf $(CURDIR)/doc/output
--	test ! -f libc/Makefile || make -C libc distclean
- 	dh_auto_clean
- 
- override_dh_auto_install:
--	make -C libc install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/pgbackrest
- 	make -C src install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/pgbackrest
- 	dh_auto_install