diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 45957b40..6e148821 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: fail2ban
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), dpatch, python
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), python
 Build-Depends-Indep: python-central (>= 0.5.6)
 XS-Python-Version: current, >= 2.4
 Homepage: http://www.fail2ban.org
diff --git a/debian/patches/00_named_logtimeformat.dpatch b/debian/patches/00_named_logtimeformat.dpatch
deleted file mode 100755
index 672f86e5..00000000
--- a/debian/patches/00_named_logtimeformat.dpatch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
-## 00_named_logtimeformat.dpatch by Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
-##
-## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
-## DP: No description.
-
-@DPATCH@
-diff -urNad trunk~/server/datedetector.py trunk/server/datedetector.py
---- trunk~/server/datedetector.py	2007-04-01 16:42:08.000000000 -0400
-+++ trunk/server/datedetector.py	2007-07-29 22:28:52.000000000 -0400
-@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
- 			template.setRegex("\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}")
- 			template.setPattern("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
- 			self.__templates.append(template)
-+			# named 26-Jul-2007 15:20:52.252 
-+			template = DateStrptime()
-+			template.setName("Day-Month-Year Hour:Minute:Second[.Millisecond]")
-+			template.setRegex("\d{2}-\S{3}-\d{4} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}")
-+			template.setPattern("%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S")
-+			self.__templates.append(template)
- 			# TAI64N
- 			template = DateTai64n()
- 			template.setName("TAI64N")
diff --git a/debian/patches/00list b/debian/patches/00list
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29b..00000000
diff --git a/debian/patches/10_multiple_HOST_regexp.dpatch b/debian/patches/10_multiple_HOST_regexp.dpatch
deleted file mode 100755
index b791a932..00000000
--- a/debian/patches/10_multiple_HOST_regexp.dpatch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
-## 10_multiple_HOST_regexp.dpatch by Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
-##
-## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
-## DP: No description.
-
-@DPATCH@
-diff -urNad fail2ban-0.7.5~/server/filter.py fail2ban-0.7.5/server/filter.py
---- fail2ban-0.7.5~/server/filter.py	2006-11-26 15:37:31.000000000 -0500
-+++ fail2ban-0.7.5/server/filter.py	2006-12-22 13:30:25.000000000 -0500
-@@ -170,8 +170,17 @@
- 				self.__failRegex = value
- 				self.__failRegexObj = None
- 			else:
--				# Replace "<HOST>" with default regular expression for host.
--				regex = value.replace("<HOST>", "(?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>\S+)")
-+				# Replace "<HOST>"s with regular expression for a hostname,
-+				# naming groups hostX where X is a number starting with 1
-+				regex = value
-+				oldregex = ''; k = 0
-+				while ( regex != oldregex ):
-+					oldregex = regex
-+					k += 1
-+					regex = regex.replace("<HOST>",
-+										  "(?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host%d>\S+)" % k,
-+										  1)
-+
- 				self.__failRegex = regex
- 				self.__failRegexObj = re.compile(regex)
- 			logSys.info("Set failregex = %s" % self.__failRegex)
-@@ -435,12 +444,18 @@
- 							 + "this format")
- 			else:
- 				try:
--					ipMatch = DNSUtils.textToIp(match.group("host"))
--					if ipMatch:
--						for ip in ipMatch:
--							failList.append([ip, date])
-+					allGroups = match.groupdict()
-+					hostRe = re.compile('host\d*$')
-+					# Select only groups named host\d*
-+					hostGroups = filter(lambda x: hostRe.match(x[0]) and x[1],
-+										allGroups.iteritems())
-+					for hostGroup, hostEntry in hostGroups:
-+						ipMatch = DNSUtils.textToIp(hostEntry)
-+						if ipMatch:
-+							for ip in ipMatch:
-+								failList.append([ip, date])
- 				except IndexError:
--					logSys.error("There is no 'host' group in the rule. " +
-+					logSys.error("There is no 'hostX' group in the rule. " +
- 								 "Please correct your configuration.")
- 		return failList
- 	
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 282e3140..3a51c192 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,19 +11,14 @@
 
 DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/fail2ban
 
-# no parallel execution -- required for dpatch
-.NOTPARALLEL:
-
-include /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make
-
 configure: configure-stamp
 configure-stamp:
 	dh_testdir
 	touch configure-stamp
 
-build: patch
+build:
 
-clean: clean-inits unpatch
+clean: clean-inits
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	rm -f  build-stamp configure-stamp