diff -Nru sosreport-3.5/debian/changelog sosreport-3.5/debian/changelog
--- sosreport-3.5/debian/changelog	2017-11-16 06:53:34.000000000 -0500
+++ sosreport-3.5/debian/changelog	2017-12-07 08:33:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+sosreport (3.5-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch:
+    Fixing severe regression where many "packages = <PKG_NAME>" lines are no
+    longer working in Debian/Ubuntu. Preventing automatic package detection.
+
+ -- Eric Desrochers <eric.desrochers@canonical.com>  Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:04:34 +0000
+
 sosreport (3.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * testNew upstream release v3.5
diff -Nru sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch
--- sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch	2017-12-05 12:14:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Description: Reset to expected variable order for packagemanager.
+ Commit 82e4ee2 changed the order of variables in packagemanager
+ to what none of the policies expected.  This sets it back so
+ query is always first.  Red Hat policy is the only one that
+ uses more than one variable for it.
+Author: Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@canonical.com>
+Origin: upstream, https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/1156/commits/a7f4f83590bf9338ade0d79d7c7af0f2c21892b0
+Bug: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/1155
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734983
+Index: sosreport-3.5/sos/policies/__init__.py
+===================================================================
+--- sosreport-3.5.orig/sos/policies/__init__.py
++++ sosreport-3.5/sos/policies/__init__.py
+@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ class PackageManager(object):
+     verify_filter = None
+     chroot = None
+ 
+-    def __init__(self, chroot=None, query_command=None,
+-                 verify_command=None, verify_filter=None):
++    def __init__(self, query_command=None, verify_command=None,
++		verify_filter=None, chroot=None,):
+         self.packages = {}
+ 
+         self.query_command = query_command if query_command else None
diff -Nru sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/series sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/series
--- sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/series	2017-11-16 06:53:34.000000000 -0500
+++ sosreport-3.5/debian/patches/series	2017-12-05 11:59:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 0001-skip-py2-only-tests.patch
+0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch