diff --git a/roles/mailman/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mailman/tasks/main.yml
index 38b28162d5..2c9da10ae2 100644
--- a/roles/mailman/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mailman/tasks/main.yml
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 ## see issue https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8824
 ## see upstream merge request https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/merge_requests/350
 - name: hotfix - let mailman cope with e-mails containing broken unicode
-  patch: src=files/hotfix/mailman3/mailman3-broken-unicode-emails.patch dest=/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/email/message.py
+  patch: src={{ files }}/hotfix/mailman3/mailman3-broken-unicode-emails.patch dest=/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/email/message.py
   when: env == "staging"
   tags:
   - mailman