diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index fcb1bef6..92c19c6d 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -27,16 +27,9 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	README \
 	README.cygwin \
 	file2header.sh \
-	irssi.spec \
-	irssi.spec.in \
 	$(conf_DATA) \
 	$(theme_DATA) \
 	irssi-config.in \
 	irssi-icon.png \
 	syntax.pl \
 	findsyntax.pl
-
-## make rpms
-rpm: Makefile
-	$(MAKE) dist
-	rpm -ta --clean $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b33f4432..2b885374 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -757,7 +757,6 @@ docs/Makefile
 docs/help/Makefile
 docs/help/in/Makefile
 irssi-version.h
-irssi.spec
 irssi-config
 ])
 
diff --git a/irssi.spec.in b/irssi.spec.in
deleted file mode 100644
index c0ed2a9b..00000000
--- a/irssi.spec.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# $Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2003/11/17 20:43:05 $
-Name: 		irssi
-Version: 	@VERSION@
-Release: 	1
-Vendor: 	Timo Sirainen <cras@irssi.org>
-Summary:  	Irssi is a IRC client
-License: 	GPL
-Group: 		Applications/Communications
-URL: 		http://www.irssi.org/
-Source0: 	http://www.irssi.org/files/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  glib-devel >= 1.2.0, ncurses-devel
-BuildRoot:      /tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root
-
-%define		_sysconfdir	/etc
-%define		configure { CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%optflags}" ; export CFLAGS ;  CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:-%optflags}" ; export CXXFLAGS ;  FFLAGS="${FFLAGS:-%optflags}" ; export FFLAGS ; ./configure %{_target_platform} 	--prefix=%{_prefix} --exec-prefix=%{_exec_prefix} --bindir=%{_bindir} --sbindir=%{_sbindir} --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} --datadir=%{_datadir} --includedir=%{_includedir} --libdir=%{_libdir} --libexecdir=%{_libexecdir} --localstatedir=%{_localstatedir} --sharedstatedir=%{_sharedstatedir} --mandir=%{_mandir} --infodir=%{_infodir} }
-
-%description
-Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user
-interface, but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific so other UI
-could be created pretty easily. Also, Irssi isn't really even IRC
-specific anymore, there's already a working SILC module available.
-Support for other protocols like ICQ could be created some day too.
-
-More information can be found at http://irssi.org/.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-%build
-%configure \
-	--with-plugins \
-	--enable-ipv6 \
-	--with-textui \
-	--with-imlib \
-	--with-bot \
-	--with-socks \
-	--with-proxy \
-	--with-perl="yes" \
-	--with-ncurses
-make
-
-%install
-rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
-make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} PREFIX=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_prefix} PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install
-strip ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/*
-strip ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_libdir}/irssi/modules/lib*.so*
-
-rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_libdir}/irssi/modules/*.{a,la} \
-	${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{perl_archlib}/auto/Irssi/.packlist \
-	${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{perl_archlib}/auto/Irssi/*/.packlist \
-	${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{perl_archlib}/perllocal.pod
-rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_docdir}/irssi/
-
-%clean
-rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
-rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/%{name}-%{version}
-
-%files 
-%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README TODO
-%doc docs/*.txt docs/*.html
-%doc %{_mandir}/man1/*
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/*
-%{_bindir}/*
-%{_libdir}/irssi/
-%{perl_archlib}
-%{_datadir}/irssi/
-
-%changelog
-* Mon Nov 17 2003 Robert Scheck <irssi@robert-scheck.de>
-  Fixed many things for better rebuilding and a good package
-
-* Fri Aug 17 2001 - Joose Vettenranta <joose@iki.fi>
-  Created new spec file from spec file founded in irssi-0.7.98.3