diff --git a/debian/patches/pkg-resources.patch b/debian/patches/pkg-resources.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af4a21a0fe230be3c127aead2e637d7d8b9ccdf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/pkg-resources.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+commit b4dc78ef31ff55392b0447fa88d6450f08f0a841
+Author: Ayala Shachar <shachar.ayala@gmail.com>
+Date:   Fri Sep 27 17:50:34 2024 +0300
+
+    Remove deprecated package: pkg_resources
+
+diff --git a/forge/__version__.py b/forge/__version__.py
+index 2b9fae5..8996654 100644
+--- a/forge/__version__.py
++++ b/forge/__version__.py
+@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-import pkg_resources
++import sys
++if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
++   import pkg_resources
++   get_distribution = pkg_resources.get_distribution
++else:
++   from importlib.metadata import distribution
++   get_distribution = distribution
+ 
+-__version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution('pyforge').version
++__version__ = get_distribution('pyforge').version
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index fd38857bf3f23dae7a6f38e65519c0bd7c0f7a73..5b049a0ca0a588c8e1173d57ad41398804fe6eae 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 pyver.patch
 tox-pytest.patch
 python3.13.patch
+pkg-resources.patch