diff --git a/phonon-4.3.50-xine_pulseaudio.patch b/phonon-4.3.50-xine_pulseaudio.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ca7c300..0000000
--- a/phonon-4.3.50-xine_pulseaudio.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -up phonon/xine/backend.cpp.pulseaudio phonon/xine/backend.cpp
---- phonon/xine/backend.cpp.pulseaudio	2009-10-03 14:00:19.000000000 -0500
-+++ phonon/xine/backend.cpp	2009-10-19 12:23:17.768923476 -0500
-@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ void Backend::checkAudioOutputs()
-                             "in KDE2 and KDE3. Its use is discouraged.</p></html>"),
-                         /*icon name */"audio-backend-arts", outputPlugins[i]);
-             } else if (0 == strcmp(outputPlugins[i], "pulseaudio")) {
--                addAudioOutput(nextIndex++, 10, tr("PulseAudio"),
-+                addAudioOutput(nextIndex++, 2000, tr("PulseAudio"),
-                         xine_get_audio_driver_plugin_description(m_xine, outputPlugins[i]),
-                         /*icon name */"audio-backend-pulseaudio", outputPlugins[i]);
-             } else if (0 == strcmp(outputPlugins[i], "esd")) {
diff --git a/phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities.patch b/phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bb993c4..0000000
--- a/phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur phonon-4.3.80/phonon/globalconfig.cpp phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities/phonon/globalconfig.cpp
---- phonon-4.3.80/phonon/globalconfig.cpp	2009-12-03 20:29:35.000000000 +0100
-+++ phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities/phonon/globalconfig.cpp	2010-01-22 15:57:25.000000000 +0100
-@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
- #include "pulsesupport_p.h"
- 
- #include <QtCore/QList>
-+#include <QtCore/QHash>
- #include <QtCore/QVariant>
- 
- QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
-@@ -314,6 +315,15 @@
-                     | ((override & HideUnavailableDevices) ? FilterUnavailableDevices : 0)
-                     );
-         }
-+        // make PulseAudio the global default (assume it is already default in this list)
-+        if (!list.isEmpty()) {
-+            int firstIndex = list.first();
-+            if (backendIface->objectDescriptionProperties(Phonon::AudioOutputDeviceType,
-+                  firstIndex)["icon"].toString() == "audio-backend-pulseaudio") {
-+                list.removeFirst();
-+                defaultList.prepend(firstIndex);
-+            }
-+        }
-         defaultList += list;
-     }
- 
-@@ -394,6 +404,15 @@
-                     | ((override & HideUnavailableDevices) ? FilterUnavailableDevices : 0)
-                   );
-         }
-+        // make PulseAudio the global default (assume it is already default in this list)
-+        if (!list.isEmpty()) {
-+            int firstIndex = list.first();
-+            if (backendIface->objectDescriptionProperties(Phonon::AudioCaptureDeviceType,
-+                  firstIndex)["icon"].toString() == "audio-backend-pulseaudio") {
-+                list.removeFirst();
-+                defaultList.prepend(firstIndex);
-+            }
-+        }
-         defaultList += list;
-     }
- 
diff --git a/phonon.spec b/phonon.spec
index 3237bbd..8ec9d3b 100644
--- a/phonon.spec
+++ b/phonon.spec
@@ -21,12 +21,6 @@ Source14: hi48-phonon-gstreamer.png
 Source15: hi64-phonon-gstreamer.png
 Source16: hi128-phonon-gstreamer.png
 
-# Make PulseAudio the default when listed by the Xine backend and native
-# PulseAudio integration is not available (e.g. F-11 with too old PulseAudio).
-Patch0:  phonon-4.3.80-pulseaudio-device-priorities.patch
-# Give PulseAudio the highest priority in the Xine backend so the above works.
-Patch1:  phonon-4.3.50-xine_pulseaudio.patch
-
 ## Mandriva/upstreamable patches
 Patch51: phonon-4.3.50-fix-decodebin-usage.patch
 Patch52: phonon-4.3.50-gstreamer-fix-seekable-query-failed.patch
@@ -46,11 +40,7 @@ BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig
 BuildRequires: qt4-devel
 BuildRequires: xine-lib-devel
-%if 0%{?fedora} > 10
 BuildRequires: pulseaudio-libs-devel >= 0.9.15
-%else
-%define pa_keep_old_hacks 1
-%endif
 
 Requires: phonon-backend%{?_isa} >= %{version}
 
@@ -92,12 +82,6 @@ Provides:  %{name}-backend-gst = %{version}-%{release}
 %prep
 %setup -q -n phonon%{!?snap:-%{?tar_ver}%{!?tar_ver:%{version}}}
 
-%if 0%{?pa_keep_old_hacks}
-# FIXME/adapt to 4.4, or drop 
-#patch0 -p1 -b .pulseaudio-device-priorities
-#patch1 -p1 -b .xine_pulseaudio
-%endif
-
 %patch51 -p0 -b .fix-decodebin-usage
 %patch52 -p1 -b .gstreamer-fix-seekable-query-failed
 %patch53 -p1 -b .phonon-allow-stop-empty-source