diff --git a/ndn-tools/debian/changelog b/ndn-tools/debian/changelog
index d7c0e42..910a936 100644
--- a/ndn-tools/debian/changelog
+++ b/ndn-tools/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ndn-tools (0.6.1-ppa1~DISTRO) DISTRO; urgency=low
+
+  * Version based on ndn-tools-0.6.1 (https://github.com/named-data/ndn-
+    tools)
+
+ -- Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>  Mon, 07 May 2018 03:43:44 +0000
+
 ndn-tools (0.6-ppa1~DISTRO) DISTRO; urgency=low
 
   * Version based on ndn-tools-0.6 (https://github.com/named-data/ndn-
diff --git a/ndn-tools/debian/control b/ndn-tools/debian/control
index d850f30..fac26cb 100644
--- a/ndn-tools/debian/control
+++ b/ndn-tools/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
  pkg-config (>= 0.26),
  libpcap-dev,
  python-sphinx,
- libndn-cxx-dev (>= 0.6.1)
+ libndn-cxx-dev (>= 0.6.2),
+ git
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Section: net
 Homepage: http://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools
diff --git a/ndn-tools/debian/patches/series b/ndn-tools/debian/patches/series
index fd704fb..e69de29 100644
--- a/ndn-tools/debian/patches/series
+++ b/ndn-tools/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-wscript.patch
diff --git a/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch b/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fe6fab..0000000
--- a/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-Index: a/wscript
-===================================================================
---- a.orig/wscript	2017-01-26 05:03:14.250879786 +0000
-+++ a/wscript	2017-01-26 05:03:52.114878924 +0000
-@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
-     bld.recurse('manpages')
- 
- def version(bld):
-+    didGetVersion = False
-     # Modified from ndn-cxx wscript
-     try:
-         cmd = ['git', 'describe', '--always', '--match', '%s*' % GIT_TAG_PREFIX]