diff --git a/debian/patches/cronjob-hashbang b/debian/patches/cronjob-hashbang
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ca8849edd..0000000000
--- a/debian/patches/cronjob-hashbang
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Description: fix #! for cronjob
-Origin: vendor
-Forwarded: no
-Author: Lars Wirzenius <lars@catalyst.net.nz>
-Last-Update: 2010-04-12
-
---- a/misc/cronjobs/printoverdues.sh
-+++ b/misc/cronjobs/printoverdues.sh
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/bin/bash
-+#!/bin/bash
- 
- print_usage(){
-     echo "$0 : generates PDF files from html files in directorys and prints them";
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
deleted file mode 100644
index e34a824a77..0000000000
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-cronjob-hashbang