diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 48f07370c..d75596ee7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ linux (4.1.1-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     (thanks to Jérémy Bobbio):
     - linux-image: Fix timestamps in the built-in initramfs
     - linux-source: Fix timestamps and sort files in the tarball
-    - linux-doc: Drop original timestamp (and name) when compressing
+    - linux-doc,linux-manual: Drop original timestamp (and name) when
+      compressing
   * aufs: Apply patches to enable building aufs out-of-tree
   * [x86] Enable MMIOTRACE (Closes: #790808)
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/bugfix/all/remove-timestamps-from-compressed-man-pages.patch b/debian/patches/bugfix/all/remove-timestamps-from-compressed-man-pages.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d74ab419a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/bugfix/all/remove-timestamps-from-compressed-man-pages.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
+Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 23:34:54 +0100
+Subject: remove timestamps from compressed man pages
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/769844
+
+--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
++++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
+ 
+ MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
+ mandocs: $(MAN)
+-	find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
++	find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -nf
+ 
+ installmandocs: mandocs
+ 	mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index c5ac7d175..2f9aeee3b 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ bugfix/all/rtsx_usb_ms-use-msleep_interruptible-in-polling-loop.patch
 bugfix/all/net-mv643xx-disable-tso-by-default.patch
 debian/emmc-don-t-initialize-partitions-on-rpmb-flagged-areas.patch
 bugfix/all/make-highlights-deterministic-in-kernel-doc.patch
+bugfix/all/remove-timestamps-from-compressed-man-pages.patch
 
 # Miscellaneous features
 features/all/efi-autoload-efi-pstore.patch