diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dc186b8f7..6a7e04d03 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ systemd (208-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Disable various features which aren't required for the udeb build.
   * Move new sd_pid_get_slice and sd_session_get_vt man pages into
     libsystemd-login-dev.
+  * Make no-patch-numbers the default for gbp-pq.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:59:24 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
index 32f2a1fd1..ffa7b9706 100644
--- a/debian/gbp.conf
+++ b/debian/gbp.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [DEFAULT]
 pristine-tar = True
+patch-numbers = False
 debian-branch = experimental