diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cba7eedf70def81508084c6dfb22345972955b77..1c126bb48dd2159b48439fa03d9bf07573705662 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+hddemux (0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream version
+   - minor service cleanup
+
+ -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>  Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:01:42 -0400
+
 hddemux (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Debian packaging (Closes: #861143)
diff --git a/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch b/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 81ceb19b8bb7dbc05b821f15031c81d28a576f82..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:58:26 -0400
-Subject: fix up permissions on tmpfiles
-
-(cherry picked from commit 3f7230798c585c9246ef379d2564af3441f6870a)
----
- hddemux.conf | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/hddemux.conf b/hddemux.conf
-index e7caa67..2459555 100644
---- a/hddemux.conf
-+++ b/hddemux.conf
-@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
- # tmpfiles.d(5) runtime directory for hddemux
- d /run/hddemux 0751 root root - -
--d /run/hddemux/workdir hddemux hddemux - -
-+d /run/hddemux/workdir 0750 root hddemux - -
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
deleted file mode 100644
index 77d8986b77ac54771c21ce4e6ea410134d22187f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 3696243c76c12b9f7d08af749bff157ba63a99be..a726a69fb789659b862ae6af14bd6ee152407b30 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,8 +2,3 @@
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 %:
 	dh $@
-# do not try to start hddemux.service -- it should be
-# socket-activated.  note that this also means that hddemux.service
-# isn't stopped upon package removal, though, which i think is a bug.
-override_dh_systemd_start:
-	dh_systemd_start hddemux.socket