diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 40b8c137..54bf066a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ ver. 0.6.? (200?/??/??) - ???
   enable this feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
 - Fixed locale bug. Thanks to Fernando José
 - Fixed crash when time format does not match data
+- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path 
+  addition to the path search list: now it is added first. 
+  Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
 
 ver. 0.6.0 (2005/11/20) - stable
 ----------
diff --git a/fail2ban b/fail2ban
index 9b0d4866..5eace8bd 100755
--- a/fail2ban
+++ b/fail2ban
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ except Exception:
 	print "Unable to set locale to " + `locale.getdefaultlocale()`
 	sys.exit(-1)
 
-# Appends our own modules path.
-sys.path.append("/usr/lib/fail2ban")
+# Inserts our own modules path first in the list
+# fix for bug #343821
+sys.path.insert(1, "/usr/lib/fail2ban")
 
 # Now we can import our modules.
 import fail2ban