diff --git a/debian/files b/debian/files
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e3f2ea3f04d43ba99b96dd89411c90a7c4e8e35..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/files
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-rust-coreutils_0.0.2-1_source.buildinfo utils optional
diff --git a/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff~ b/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff~
deleted file mode 100644
index 351e0046a8b8c6095c04e761c55fcfaf986b6d05..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff~
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-Index: coreutils/Cargo.toml
-===================================================================
---- coreutils.orig/Cargo.toml
-+++ coreutils/Cargo.toml
-@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ conv = "0.3"
- filetime = "0.2"
- glob = "0.3.0"
- libc = "0.2"
--nix = "0.20.0"
-+nix = "0.19.0"
- rand = "0.7"
- regex = "1.0"
- sha1 = { version="0.6", features=["std"] }
-Index: coreutils/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
-===================================================================
---- coreutils.orig/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
-+++ coreutils/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
-@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", pack
- unix_socket = "0.5.0"
- 
- [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))'.dependencies]
--nix = "0.20"
-+nix = "0.19"
- 
- [[bin]]
- name = "cat"
-Index: coreutils/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
-===================================================================
---- coreutils.orig/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
-+++ coreutils/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", pack
- thiserror = "1.0"
- 
- [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
--nix = "0.20"
-+nix = "0.19"
- libc = "0.2"
- 
- [[bin]]
-Index: coreutils/src/uu/nice/Cargo.toml
-===================================================================
---- coreutils.orig/src/uu/nice/Cargo.toml
-+++ coreutils/src/uu/nice/Cargo.toml
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ path = "src/nice.rs"
- [dependencies]
- clap = "2.33"
- libc = "0.2.42"
--nix = { version="<=0.13" }
-+nix = "0.19"
- uucore = { version=">=0.0.8", package="uucore", path="../../uucore" }
- uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
-