diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1da558db141b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Generated by debian-patches.sh from debian-patches.txt
+let
+  prefix = "http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/dl/gamin/0.1.10-4";
+in
+[
+  {
+    url = "${prefix}/17_deprecated_const_return.patch";
+    sha256 = "0bssrqcmyivlpk2g0q71d1yavd4wv1lw34l8qipm0ndljjd6rbrk";
+  }
+]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.txt b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4faad71d44d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/debian-patches.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+gamin/0.1.10-4
+17_deprecated_const_return.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
index c72a619b66e4..a212946c67f3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "18cr51y5qacvs2fc2p1bqv32rs8bzgs6l67zhasyl45yx055y218";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ python pkgconfig glib ];
+  buildNativeInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ python glib ];
 
   # `_GNU_SOURCE' is needed, e.g., to get `struct ucred' from
   # <sys/socket.h> with Glibc 2.9.
   configureFlags = "--disable-debug --with-python=${python} CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE";
+
+  patches = map fetchurl (import ./debian-patches.nix);
 }