diff --git a/debian/patches/remove-syslog.target-reference.patch b/debian/patches/remove-syslog.target-reference.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 57e73cde..00000000
--- a/debian/patches/remove-syslog.target-reference.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Description: Don't mention obsolete syslog.target in systemd service file
-Author: Daniel Schaal <farbing@web.de>
-Last-Update: 2014-03-15
-
---- fail2ban-0.9.0.orig/files/fail2ban.service
-+++ fail2ban-0.9.0/files/fail2ban.service
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- [Unit]
- Description=Fail2ban Service
--After=syslog.target network.target
-+After=network.target
- 
- [Service]
- Type=forking
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 1be59357..b7728eee 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 deb_manpages_reportbug
-remove-syslog.target-reference.patch