diff --git a/SOURCES/0001-always-obey-GEVENT_NO_CFFI_BUILD.patch b/SOURCES/0001-always-obey-GEVENT_NO_CFFI_BUILD.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f768ec..0000000
--- a/SOURCES/0001-always-obey-GEVENT_NO_CFFI_BUILD.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-From 05650624fe2524ecb1bdbbd4facc5d988275e542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Dan Callaghan <dcallagh@redhat.com>
-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 13:55:53 +1000
-Subject: [PATCH] always obey GEVENT_NO_CFFI_BUILD
-
-If libev is not embedded, we still want to set GEVENT_NO_CFFI_BUILD=1 to
-prevent setup.py from trying to configure libev, regardless whether cffi
-modules will actually be built or not.
----
- setup.py | 11 ++++++-----
- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
-index 9c229ad..ea4dcaf 100755
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
-@@ -90,16 +90,17 @@
- except ImportError:
-     pass
- else:
--    if IGNORE_CFFI and not PYPY:
--        # Allow distributors to turn off CFFI builds
--        # even if it's available, because CFFI always embeds
--        # our copy of libev and they may not want that.
--        del cffi_modules[:]
-     # Note that we don't add cffi to install_requires, it's
-     # optional. We tend to build and distribute wheels with the CFFI
-     # modules built and they can be imported if CFFI is installed.
-     # install_requires.append('cffi >= 1.3.0')
-+    pass
- 
-+if IGNORE_CFFI and not PYPY:
-+    # Allow distributors to turn off CFFI builds
-+    # even if it's available, because CFFI always embeds
-+    # our copy of libev and they may not want that.
-+    del cffi_modules[:]
- 
- # If we are running info / help commands, or we're being imported by
- # tools like pyroma, we don't need to build anything
--- 
-2.9.4
-