diff --git a/debian/patches/debian/0001-rust-dirs.patch b/debian/patches/debian/0001-rust-dirs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c384fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/debian/0001-rust-dirs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Author: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
+Description: Building with available rust-dirs version from sid.
+
+diff -Naurp rust-auth-git2.orig/Cargo.toml rust-auth-git2/Cargo.toml
+--- rust-auth-git2.orig/Cargo.toml
++++ rust-auth-git2/Cargo.toml
+@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ name = "git"
+ path = "examples/git.rs"
+ 
+ [dependencies.dirs]
+-version = "6.0.0"
++version = "5.0.0"
+ 
+ [dependencies.git2]
+ version = ">0.14, <21.0"
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
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index 0000000..f89f960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian/0001-rust-dirs.patch