diff --git a/debian/patches/progress-linux/0001-enable-sort-attributes.patch b/debian/patches/progress-linux/0001-enable-sort-attributes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca62454
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/progress-linux/0001-enable-sort-attributes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Author: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
+Description: Enabling sorting attributes in svg output.
+
+diff -Naurp inkscape.orig/src/preferences-skeleton.h inkscape/src/preferences-skeleton.h
+--- inkscape.orig/src/preferences-skeleton.h
++++ inkscape/src/preferences-skeleton.h
+@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static char const preferences_skeleton[]
+            check_on_reading="0"
+            check_on_editing="0"
+            check_on_writing="0"
+-           sort_attributes="0"/>
++           sort_attributes="1"/>
+     <group id="externalresources">
+       <group id="xml"
+            allow_net_access="0"/>
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 722f243..76dec44 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ Fix-building-with-poppler-25.02.0.patch
 skip-test-multi-page-sample-big-endian.patch
 skip-test-geom-pathstroke.patch
 skip-tests-multi-architectures.patch
+progress-linux/0001-enable-sort-attributes.patch