diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix
index b734eadae902..d9fab774b76a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, expect, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "dejagnu-1.6";
+  name = "dejagnu-1.6.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/dejagnu/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0qypaakd2065jgpcv84zcsibl8gph3p334gb2qdmhsrbirhlmdh0";
+    sha256 = "14hnq1mh91vqprc43xdy4f15sycw6fbajrh7zi6cw2kyg6xjhnxz";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./wrapped-runtest-program-name.patch ];
-
   buildInputs = [ expect makeWrapper ];
 
   doCheck = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/wrapped-runtest-program-name.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/wrapped-runtest-program-name.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d745bc65cbb2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/wrapped-runtest-program-name.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-This patch gives `runtest' a `$0' that contains `runtest' instead
-of `.runtest-wrapped'.  This is required because `runtest' checks
-what `$0' looks like to determine the target.
-
---- dejagnu-1.4.4/runtest	2003-08-17 03:27:59.000000000 +0200
-+++ dejagnu-1.4.4/runtest	2010-03-18 15:57:58.000000000 +0100
-@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
- # Get the execution path to this script and the current directory.
- #
- mypath=${0-.}
-+mypath="`echo $mypath | sed -'es|\.runtest-wrapped|runtest|g'`"
- if expr ${mypath} : '.*/.*' > /dev/null
- then
-     :
-