diff --git a/mariadb-shebang.patch b/mariadb-shebang.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f0a267..0000000
--- a/mariadb-shebang.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-*** WARNING: mangling shebang in /usr/bin/myrocks_hotbackup from #!/usr/bin/env python to #!/usr/bin/python2. This will become an ERROR, fix it manually!
-
-Maintainer's note:
-This script is not python3 compatible:
-ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'commands'
-
-diff -Naurp mariadb-10.3.12/storage/rocksdb/myrocks_hotbackup.py mariadb-10.3.12/storage/rocksdb/myrocks_hotbackup.py_patched
---- mariadb-10.3.12/storage/rocksdb/myrocks_hotbackup.py	2019-01-04 16:28:50.000000000 +0100
-+++ mariadb-10.3.12/storage/rocksdb/myrocks_hotbackup.py_patched	2019-01-08 12:00:54.468750863 +0100
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!@PYTHON_SHEBANG@
-+#!/usr/bin/python2
- 
- from __future__ import division
- from optparse import OptionParser