diff --git a/debian/patches/0002-zupdate.patch b/debian/patches/0002-zupdate.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93e179f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0002-zupdate.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Author: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
+Description: Avoid linking zupdate statically.
+
+diff -Naurp zutils.orig/Makefile.in zutils/Makefile.in
+--- zutils.orig/Makefile.in
++++ zutils/Makefile.in
+@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ztest : ztest.in
+ 	chmod a+x ztest
+ 
+ zupdate : $(zupdate_objs)
+-	$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(zupdate_objs)
++	$(CXX) -o $@ $(zupdate_objs)
+ 
+ main.o : main.cc
+ 	$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -DGREP=\"$(GREP)\" -c -o $@ $<
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 58cf314..202a17f 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 0001-build.patch
+0002-zupdate.patch