diff --git a/rpm-4.18.0-brp-strip-fix-for-plus-in-buildroot.patch b/rpm-4.18.0-brp-strip-fix-for-plus-in-buildroot.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1052028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpm-4.18.0-brp-strip-fix-for-plus-in-buildroot.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- rpm-4.18.0/scripts/brp-strip.orig	2022-10-09 14:16:22.271823915 +0200
++++ rpm-4.18.0/scripts/brp-strip	2022-10-09 14:16:31.961765809 +0200
+@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
+ esac
+ 
+ # Strip ELF binaries
+-find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -type f \! -regex "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/*usr/lib/debug.*" \! -name "*.go" -print0 | \
++find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -type f \! -path "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/*usr/lib/debug*" \! -name "*.go" -print0 | \
+     xargs -0 -r -P$NCPUS -n32 sh -c "file \"\$@\" | sed -n -e 's/^\(.*\):[ 	]*ELF.*, not stripped.*/\1/p' | grep -v 'no machine' | xargs -I\{\} $STRIP -g \{\}" ARG0
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index 6182e24..b34284f 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 Name:          rpm
 Epoch:         1
 Version:       4.18.0
-Release:       1mamba
+Release:       2mamba
 Summary:       The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system
 Group:         System/Management
 Vendor:        openmamba
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Patch10:       rpm-4.14.2.1-openmamba-buildroot.patch
 Patch11:       rpm-4.14.2.1-target-platform-gnu.patch
 Patch12:       rpm-4.17.0-find-lang-qt-fix.patch
 Patch13:       rpm-4.16.1.3-pythondistdeps-no-richdeps.patch
+Patch14:       rpm-4.18.0-brp-strip-fix-for-plus-in-buildroot.patch
 License:       LGPL
 ## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
 BuildRequires: glibc-devel
@@ -71,7 +72,6 @@ BuildRequires: libpopt-devel
 BuildRequires: libpython3-devel
 BuildRequires: libreadline-devel
 BuildRequires: libsqlite-devel
-BuildRequires: libsystemd-devel
 BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: libz-devel
 BuildRequires: libzstd-devel
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ This package should be installed if you want to develop Python programs that wil
 %patch11 -p1
 %patch12 -p1
 #%patch13 -p1
+%patch14 -p1
 
 #sed -i "s|/usr/bin/python$|%{__python3}|" scripts/pythondistdeps.py
 
@@ -304,6 +305,9 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/librpm*.la
 %{python3_sitearch}/rpm/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 09 2022 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 4.18.0-2mamba
+- brp-strip: added patch to fix exclusion of /usr/lib/debug when buildroot contains a plus (+) symbol
+
 * Fri Sep 23 2022 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 4.18.0-1mamba
 - automatic version update by autodist