diff --git a/kf5-sonnet.spec b/kf5-sonnet.spec
index d84883d..a9a3034 100644
--- a/kf5-sonnet.spec
+++ b/kf5-sonnet.spec
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ URL:            https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=%{framework}.git
 Source0:        http://download.kde.org/%{stable}/frameworks/%{versiondir}/%{framework}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
 ## upstreamable patches
-# silence (mostly) needless output by default
-Patch1: sonnet-5.15.0-qDebug.patch
 # workaround multilib conflicts in trigrams.map by using QMap instead of QHash
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262746
 Patch2: sonnet-5.13.0-multilib.patch
diff --git a/sonnet-5.15.0-qDebug.patch b/sonnet-5.15.0-qDebug.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d2a3b20..0000000
--- a/sonnet-5.15.0-qDebug.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -up sonnet-5.15.0/src/core/loader.cpp.qDebug sonnet-5.15.0/src/core/loader.cpp
---- sonnet-5.15.0/src/core/loader.cpp.qDebug	2015-10-05 03:29:56.000000000 -0500
-+++ sonnet-5.15.0/src/core/loader.cpp	2015-10-19 09:39:40.679656424 -0500
-@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ SpellerPlugin *Loader::createSpeller(con
-     const QVector<Client *> lClients = d->languageClients[plang];
- 
-     if (lClients.isEmpty()) {
--        qWarning() << "No language dictionaries for the language:" << plang;
-+        qDebug() << "No language dictionaries for the language:" << plang;
-         return 0;
-     }
-