diff --git a/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/0002-debian-Bump-timesyncd-from-Depends-to-Recommends.patch b/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/0002-debian-Bump-timesyncd-from-Depends-to-Recommends.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 28faf3235..000000000
--- a/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/0002-debian-Bump-timesyncd-from-Depends-to-Recommends.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From 5b904c183e00060d455009632a49a7adda789204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Charles Short <charles.short@windriver.com>
-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:32:22 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] debian: Bump timesyncd from Depends to Recommends
-
-Allows other time sync daemons to be installed such as NTP
-to be installed in order to fix the ISO build.
-
-Signed-off-by: Charles Short <charles.short@windriver.com>
----
- debian/control | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
-index be7c47b90e..c20529e354 100644
---- a/debian/control
-+++ b/debian/control
-@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ Architecture: linux-any
- Multi-Arch: foreign
- Section: admin
- Priority: important
--Recommends: dbus
-+Recommends: dbus,
-+            systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon,
- Suggests: systemd-container,
-           policykit-1
- Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Pre-Depends},
-@@ -73,7 +74,6 @@ Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Pre-Depends},
- Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
-          ${misc:Depends},
-          libsystemd0 (= ${binary:Version}),
--         systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon,
-          util-linux (>= 2.27.1),
-          mount (>= 2.26),
-          adduser,
--- 
-2.32.0
-
diff --git a/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/series b/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/series
index 72f70ff42..18d1298b6 100644
--- a/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/series
+++ b/base/systemd/debian/deb_patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 0001-Update-symbols-file-for-libsystemd0.patch
-0002-debian-Bump-timesyncd-from-Depends-to-Recommends.patch
diff --git a/base/systemd/debian/meta_data.yaml b/base/systemd/debian/meta_data.yaml
index ec2dd67d8..fd7809319 100644
--- a/base/systemd/debian/meta_data.yaml
+++ b/base/systemd/debian/meta_data.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
-debver: 247.3-6
+debver: 247.3-7
 dl_path:
-  name: systemd-debian-247.3-6.tar.gz
-  url: https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/archive/debian/247.3-6/systemd-debian-247.3-6.tar.gz
-  md5sum: d9a4c36243f81ed3b0e580a45e3452b2
-  sha256sum: 7e5ee6da7a1094d5ab3069d6ee92fd64349196c00ef1285d48c1833fcbb700a7
+  name: systemd-debian-247.3-7.tar.gz
+  url: https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/archive/debian/247.3-7/systemd-debian-247.3-7.tar.gz
+  md5sum: 99b627b32cc4fce1ba23189da8d6a6a5
+  sha256sum: 2f5129519100a2f6e218832efa147f0fd8b7332a0f1cda070560134cda0d739b
 revision:
   dist: $STX_DIST
   PKG_GITREVCOUNT: true