diff --git a/0001-Link-moved-functions-in-dogpile.cache.util.patch b/0001-Link-moved-functions-in-dogpile.cache.util.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8566f13..0000000
--- a/0001-Link-moved-functions-in-dogpile.cache.util.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-From 85dd3797d5abeea16ba7636796e07338878fba10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jamie Lennox <jamielennox@gmail.com>
-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 09:50:43 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] Link moved functions in dogpile.cache.util
-
-Change-Id: I5819a237d6abe7c2ee5e04abeedc06ff229388a8
-Pull-request: https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/dogpile.cache/pull-requests/51
----
- docs/build/changelog.rst | 11 +++++++++++
- dogpile/cache/util.py    |  8 ++++++++
- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
-
-Index: dogpile.cache-0.6.1/docs/build/changelog.rst
-===================================================================
---- dogpile.cache-0.6.1.orig/docs/build/changelog.rst
-+++ dogpile.cache-0.6.1/docs/build/changelog.rst
-@@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ Changelog
-       and ``NameRegistry`` into the base namespace, in addition to
-       ``dogpile.core.nameregistry`` and ``dogpile.core.readwrite_lock``.
- 
-+    .. change::
-+      :tags: bug
-+
-+      Restored some more util symbols that users may have been relying upon
-+      (although these were not necessarily intended as user-facing):
-+      ``dogpile.cache.util.coerce_string_conf``,
-+      ``dogpile.cache.util.KeyReentrantMutex``,
-+      ``dogpile.cache.util.memoized_property``,
-+      ``dogpile.cache.util.PluginLoader``,
-+      ``dogpile.cache.util.to_list``.
-+
- .. changelog::
-     :version: 0.6.0
-     :released: Mon Jun 6 2016
-Index: dogpile.cache-0.6.1/dogpile/cache/util.py
-===================================================================
---- dogpile.cache-0.6.1.orig/dogpile/cache/util.py
-+++ dogpile.cache-0.6.1/dogpile/cache/util.py
-@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
- from hashlib import sha1
- import inspect
- from ..util import compat
-+from ..util import langhelpers
- 
- 
- def function_key_generator(namespace, fn, to_str=compat.string_type):
-@@ -75,4 +76,11 @@ def length_conditional_mangler(length, m
-             return key
-     return mangle
- 
-+# in the 0.6 release these functions were moved to the dogpile.util namespace.
-+# They are linked here to maintain compatibility with older versions.
- 
-+coerce_string_conf = langhelpers.coerce_string_conf
-+KeyReentrantMutex = langhelpers.KeyReentrantMutex
-+memoized_property = langhelpers.memoized_property
-+PluginLoader = langhelpers.PluginLoader
-+to_list = langhelpers.to_list