diff --git a/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.orig b/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.orig
deleted file mode 100755
index c7fb00198..000000000
--- a/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.orig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/make -f
-# -*- makefile -*-
-
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-
-export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
-export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND += -Wl,--as-needed
-
-ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS),hurd)
-ARGS:= -DZM_NO_MMAP=ON
-endif
-
-%:
-	dh $@ --parallel --buildsystem=cmake --builddirectory=dbuild \
-            --with systemd,sphinxdoc,apache2,linktree
-
-override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- $(ARGS)                  \
-            -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON                \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                 \
-            -DZM_CONFIG_DIR="/etc/zm"                  \
-            -DZM_RUNDIR="/var/run/zm"                  \
-            -DZM_SOCKDIR="/var/run/zm"                 \
-            -DZM_TMPDIR="/tmp/zm"                      \
-            -DZM_CGIDIR="/usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin"  \
-            -DZM_CONTENTDIR="/var/cache/zoneminder"
-
-override_dh_clean:
-	dh_clean $(MANPAGES1)
-	$(RM) -r docs/_build docs/installationguide
-
-build-indep:
-	#$(MAKE) -C docs text
-	$(MAKE) -C docs html
-
-MANPAGES1 = dbuild/scripts/zmupdate.pl.1
-$(MANPAGES1):
-	# generate man page(s):
-	pod2man -s1 --stderr --utf8 $(patsubst %.1, %, $@) $@
-
-## reproducible build:
-LAST_CHANGE=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -S Date)
-BUILD_DATE=$(shell LC_ALL=C date -u "+%B %d, %Y" -d "$(LAST_CHANGE)")
-override_dh_installman: $(MANPAGES1)
-	$(MAKE) -C docs man SPHINXOPTS="-D today=\"$(BUILD_DATE)\""
-	dh_installman --language=C $(MANPAGES1)
-
-override_dh_auto_install:
-	dh_auto_install --destdir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
-	# remove worthless files:
-	$(RM) -v $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/perl5/*/*/*/.packlist
-	$(RM) -v $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/perl5/*/*.in
-	# remove empty directories:
-	find $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr -type d -empty -delete -printf 'removed %p\n'
-	# remove extra-license-file:
-	$(RM) -v $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/lib/Cake/LICENSE.txt
-
-override_dh_fixperms:
-	dh_fixperms
-	#
-	# As requested by the Debian Webapps Policy Manual §3.2.1
-	chown root:www-data $(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder/etc/zm/zm.conf
-	chmod 640 $(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder/etc/zm/zm.conf
-
-override_dh_installinit:
-	dh_installinit --no-start
-
-override_dh_systemd_start:
-	dh_systemd_start --no-start
-
-override_dh_systemd_enable:
-	dh_systemd_enable --no-enable
-
-override_dh_apache2:
-	dh_apache2 --noenable
-
-override_dh_strip:
-	[ -d "$(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder-dbg" ] \
-        && dh_strip --dbg-package=zoneminder-dbg \
-        || dh_strip
-
-#%:
-#	dh $@ --parallel --buildsystem=autoconf --with autoreconf
-#
-#override_dh_auto_configure:
-#	dh_auto_configure -- \
-#            --sysconfdir=/etc/zm \
-#            --with-mysql=/usr \
-#            --with-webdir=/usr/share/zoneminder \
-#            --with-ffmpeg=/usr \
-#            --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin \
-#            --with-webuser=www-data \
-#            --with-webgroup=www-data \
-#            --enable-mmap=yes
diff --git a/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.rej b/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.rej
deleted file mode 100644
index 65ad1a163..000000000
--- a/distros/ubuntu1604/rules.rej
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- distros/ubuntu1604/rules
-+++ distros/ubuntu1604/rules
-@@ -58,8 +58,10 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
- 
- override_dh_fixperms:
- 	dh_fixperms
--	## 637685
--	chmod -c o-r $(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder/etc/zm/zm.conf
-+	#
-+	# As requested by the Debian Webapps Policy Manual §3.2.1
-+	chown root:www-data debian/zoneminder-core/etc/zm/zm.conf
-+	chmod 640 debian/zoneminder-core/etc/zm/zm.conf
- 
- override_dh_installinit:
- 	dh_installinit --no-start
---- distros/ubuntu1604/rules
-+++ distros/ubuntu1604/rules
-@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ override_dh_fixperms:
- 	dh_fixperms
- 	#
- 	# As requested by the Debian Webapps Policy Manual §3.2.1
--	chown root:www-data debian/zoneminder-core/etc/zm/zm.conf
--	chmod 640 debian/zoneminder-core/etc/zm/zm.conf
-+	chown root:www-data $(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder/etc/zm/zm.conf
-+	chmod 640 $(CURDIR)/debian/zoneminder/etc/zm/zm.conf
- 
- override_dh_installinit:
- 	dh_installinit --no-start