diff -Nru synaptic-0.84.3/debian/changelog synaptic-0.84.3+rpi1/debian/changelog
--- synaptic-0.84.3/debian/changelog	2018-03-18 20:50:39.000000000 +0000
+++ synaptic-0.84.3+rpi1/debian/changelog	2018-03-25 01:47:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+synaptic (0.84.3+rpi1) buster-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  [changes brought forward from 0.81.2+rpi1 by Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org> at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:51:30 +0000]
+  * Fix build on raspbian (see: #744371).
+
+  [changes introduced in 0.83+rpi1+nmu1 by Peter Michael Green]
+  * Force build system to apply patches for Debian regardless of system.
+
+ -- Raspbian forward porter <root@raspbian.org>  Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:47:30 +0000
+
 synaptic (0.84.3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ gogogogi ]
diff -Nru synaptic-0.84.3/debian/rules synaptic-0.84.3+rpi1/debian/rules
--- synaptic-0.84.3/debian/rules	2018-03-18 20:50:39.000000000 +0000
+++ synaptic-0.84.3+rpi1/debian/rules	2018-03-25 01:47:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
 # make the package build on ubuntu and debian
-DIST = $(shell lsb_release -i -s)
+# DIST = $(shell lsb_release -i -s)
+DIST = Debian
 
 DHFLAGS=--parallel
 CONFIGURE_FLAGS= --prefix=/usr \
@@ -48,7 +49,9 @@
 
 # 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)