diff -Nru ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/changelog ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/changelog
--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/changelog	2015-12-14 07:44:26.000000000 -0500
+++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/changelog	2017-02-22 10:05:32.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ruby-simplecov (0.11.1-1ubuntu1) devel; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/p/newer_json.patch: Relax json dep to allow newer versions.
+
+ -- Unit 193 <unit193@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:05:32 -0500
+
 ruby-simplecov (0.11.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload
diff -Nru ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/control ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/control
--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/control	2015-12-14 07:44:26.000000000 -0500
+++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/control	2017-02-22 10:05:32.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: ruby-simplecov
 Section: ruby
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <praveen@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~),
                gem2deb,
diff -Nru ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/newer_json.patch ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/newer_json.patch
--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/newer_json.patch	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/newer_json.patch	2017-02-22 10:04:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From b47a3bd33d70f90ea2339ec2cef2c7427a6cb825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Erik Michaels-Ober <sferik@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:56:10 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Relax JSON dependency to allow 2.x
+
+Index: ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/Gemfile
+===================================================================
+--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1.orig/Gemfile
++++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/Gemfile
+@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ group :test do
+     gem "rubocop", ">= 0.30"
+     gem "test-unit", "~> 3.0"
+   end
++  if RUBY_VERSION.start_with? '1.'
++    gem "json", "~> 1.8"
++  else
++    gem "json", "~> 2.0"
++  end
+ end
+ 
+ gemspec
+Index: ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/simplecov.gemspec
+===================================================================
+--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1.orig/simplecov.gemspec
++++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/simplecov.gemspec
+@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
+ 
+   gem.required_ruby_version = ">= 1.8.7"
+ 
+-  gem.add_dependency "json", "~> 1.8"
++  gem.add_dependency "json", ">= 1.8", "< 3"
+   gem.add_dependency "simplecov-html", "~> 0.10.0"
+   gem.add_dependency "docile", "~> 1.1.0"
+ 
diff -Nru ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/series ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/series
--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/series	2015-12-14 07:44:26.000000000 -0500
+++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/patches/series	2017-02-22 10:04:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 remove-rubygems-bundler.patch
 fix-test-suite.patch
 dont-mess-with-the-load-path.patch
+newer_json.patch
diff -Nru ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/rules ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/rules
--- ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/rules	2015-12-14 07:44:26.000000000 -0500
+++ ruby-simplecov-0.11.1/debian/rules	2017-02-22 10:05:32.000000000 -0500
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@
 
 clean:
 	dh clean --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby
+	rm -f metadata.yml
 	find . -name coverage |xargs rm -rf