diff -Nru synaptic-0.81.1/debian/changelog synaptic-0.81.1+rpi1/debian/changelog
--- synaptic-0.81.1/debian/changelog	2014-03-26 06:38:50.000000000 +0000
+++ synaptic-0.81.1+rpi1/debian/changelog	2014-04-13 13:09:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+synaptic (0.81.1+rpi1) jessie-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix build on raspbian (see: #744371).
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:03:01 +0000
+
 synaptic (0.81.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * do not crash when xapian search is triggered by view is not
diff -Nru synaptic-0.81.1/debian/rules synaptic-0.81.1+rpi1/debian/rules
--- synaptic-0.81.1/debian/rules	2014-03-18 20:02:04.000000000 +0000
+++ synaptic-0.81.1+rpi1/debian/rules	2014-04-13 13:02:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@
 
 # unpatch
 override_dh_auto_clean:
-	cp debian/patches/00list.$(DIST) debian/patches/00list
-	dpatch deapply-all
+	if [ -e debian/patches/00list.$(DIST) ]; then \
+	  cp debian/patches/00list.$(DIST) debian/patches/00list;\
+	  dpatch deapply-all;\
+	fi;
 	rm -rf patch-stamp debian/patched
 	dh_auto_clean $(DHFLAGS)