diff --git a/gzip_manpages_patch.diff b/gzip_manpages_patch.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 6934696..0000000
--- a/gzip_manpages_patch.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Index: lazarus/install/man/Makefile
-===================================================================
---- lazarus/install/man/Makefile	(revision 22196)
-+++ lazarus/install/man/Makefile	(working copy)
-@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@
- #	$(GINSTALL) -d -m 755 $(INSTALL_MANDIR)/man5
- 	$(GINSTALL) -c -m 644 man1/*.1 $(INSTALL_MANDIR)/man1
- #	$(GINSTALL) -c -m 644 man5/*.5 $(INSTALL_MANDIR)/man5
-+	find man1/*.1 -exec gzip -9f $(INSTALL_MANDIR)/'{}' \;
diff --git a/lazarus.spec b/lazarus.spec
index 8b042e2..1663660 100644
--- a/lazarus.spec
+++ b/lazarus.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ URL:            http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
 Source0:        http://download.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}-src.tar.bz2
 patch0:         Makefile_patch.diff
 patch1:         Desktop_patch.diff
-patch2: 	gzip_manpages_patch.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildRequires:  fpc, binutils, glibc-devel, desktop-file-utils, fpc-src, gtk2-devel 
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ component library - LCL, which is also included in this package.
 %setup -c -q
 %patch0 -p0
 %patch1 -p0
-%patch2 -p0
 
 %build
 cd lazarus
@@ -105,6 +103,7 @@ update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
 %changelog
 * Sun Dec 05 2010 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> - 0.9.28.2-2
 - Fix LazarusVersion substitution in configuration
+- Do not compress manpages in %%build, RPM does this for us
 
 * Wed May 19 2010 Joost van der Sluis <joost@cnoc.nl> - 0.9.28.2-1
 - Updated to version 0.9.28.2