diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5c131802e..4447042aa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 cmake (2.8.4+dfsg.1-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  * Drop multiarch_library_directory_hack.diff patch. A better solution has
+    been implemented (see below).
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>  Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:37:03 +0300
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 828ff41d5..46a2ff82a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>
 Uploaders: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>, Kai Wasserbäch <curan@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), dpkg-dev (>= 1.16), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev, 
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
  libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), procps [!hurd-any], libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0),
  libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev | libxmlrpc-c3-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ Homepage: http://cmake.org/
 
 Package: cmake
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, cmake-data (= ${source:Version}),
- dpkg-dev (>= 1.16), procps [!hurd-any]
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, cmake-data (= ${source:Version}), procps [!hurd-any]
 Suggests: gcc, make
 Description: cross-platform, open-source make system
  CMake is used to control the software compilation process using
diff --git a/debian/patches/multiarch_library_directory_hack.diff b/debian/patches/multiarch_library_directory_hack.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index a542f1dd1..000000000
--- a/debian/patches/multiarch_library_directory_hack.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-From: Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com>
-Subject: Add multiarch lib path support to find_library() (HACK)
-Bug: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12037
-Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618932
-Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/cmake/+bug/737137
-Origin: vendor, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=ubuntu_multiarch_library_directory.diff;att=1;bug=618932
-Forwarded: yes
-Acked-By: Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>
-Last-Update: 2011-06-07
-
-This is the same as ubuntu_multiarch_library_directory.diff in Ubuntu packages.
-I do not consider this patch to be a proper fix but rather hack-level stuff.
-It does not support cross-compilation or find_package() etc. However, the lack
-of better solution at the right time forced me to include it.  Hopefully, it's
-temporary.
-
---- a/Modules/Platform/UnixPaths.cmake
-+++ b/Modules/Platform/UnixPaths.cmake
-@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ SET(UNIX 1)
- GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(_CMAKE_INSTALL_DIR "${CMAKE_ROOT}" PATH)
- GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(_CMAKE_INSTALL_DIR "${_CMAKE_INSTALL_DIR}" PATH)
- 
-+EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_ARCH_TRIPLET OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
-+
- # List common installation prefixes.  These will be used for all
- # search types.
- LIST(APPEND CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH
-@@ -74,6 +76,7 @@ LIST(APPEND CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROGRAM_PATH
-   )
- 
- LIST(APPEND CMAKE_PLATFORM_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES
-+  /lib/${CMAKE_ARCH_TRIPLET} /usr/lib/${CMAKE_ARCH_TRIPLET}
-   /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib64
-   )
- 
---- a/Source/cmFindBase.cxx
-+++ b/Source/cmFindBase.cxx
-@@ -346,6 +346,14 @@ void cmFindBase::AddPrefixPaths(std::vec
-       {
-       dir += "/";
-       }
-+    if (subdir == "lib")
-+      {
-+      const char* triplet = this->Makefile->GetDefinition("CMAKE_ARCH_TRIPLET");
-+      if (triplet)
-+        {
-+        this->AddPathInternal(dir+"lib/"+triplet, pathType);
-+        }
-+      }
-     std::string add = dir + subdir;
-     if(add != "/")
-       {
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index ff2d315cf..7efb9dcab 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ fixup_manpages.diff
 FindBoost_add_-lpthread_#563479.diff
 backport_test_order_fix.diff
 screen-256color-bce.diff
-multiarch_library_directory_hack.diff
 multiarch_findgtk2_fix.diff