diff --git a/zxing-cpp-1.2.0-system-pybind11.patch b/zxing-cpp-1.2.0-system-pybind11.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 849b13d..0000000
--- a/zxing-cpp-1.2.0-system-pybind11.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur zxing-cpp-1.2.0-original/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt zxing-cpp-1.2.0/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt
---- zxing-cpp-1.2.0-original/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt	2021-05-28 06:47:09.000000000 -0400
-+++ zxing-cpp-1.2.0/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt	2021-12-13 20:31:22.286170793 -0500
-@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
- cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
- project(ZXingPython)
- 
--# get pybind11
--include(FetchContent)
--#set(FETCHCONTENT_QUIET Off)
--FetchContent_Declare (pybind11
--    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git
--    GIT_TAG v2.6.2)
--FetchContent_MakeAvailable (pybind11)
-+find_package(pybind11)
- 
- # check if we are called from the top-level ZXing project
- get_directory_property(hasParent PARENT_DIRECTORY)
diff --git a/zxing-cpp.spec b/zxing-cpp.spec
index 5afb269..aac107e 100644
--- a/zxing-cpp.spec
+++ b/zxing-cpp.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: zxing-cpp
 Version: 1.2.0
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: C++ port of the ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library
 
 # The entire source is ASL 2.0, except:
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ Patch0: 0001-Add-a-mode-to-build-against-system-versions-of-depen.patch
 # Fixes CVE-2021-28021, CVE-2021-42715, and CVE-2021-42716, and adds a patch
 # file for zxing-cpp-specific changes
 Patch1: %{url}/pull/269.patch
-# Use the system copy of pybind11 rather than trying to download a copy. This
-# patch is unconditional, so it is not, as-is, suitable for sending upstream.
-Patch2: zxing-cpp-1.2.0-system-pybind11.patch
 
 %description
 ZXing-C++ ("zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode
@@ -59,73 +56,23 @@ Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
 developing applications that use %{name}.
 
-%package -n python3-%{name}
-Summary:        Python bindings for the %{name} barcode library
-
-BuildRequires: python3-devel
-BuildRequires: pybind11-devel
-BuildRequires: chrpath
-
-Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
-
-%description -n python3-%{name}
-%{summary}.
-
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
 # remove bundled stb libraries:
 rm -v thirdparty/stb/stb_image_write.h thirdparty/stb/stb_image.h
 # stb_image.h is trivially forked: reconstruct the changes with the latest
 # unbundled copy
-cp -p /usr/include/stb/stb_image.h thirdparty/stb/
+cp -p %{_includedir}/stb/stb_image.h thirdparty/stb/
 pushd thirdparty/stb
 patch -p1 < stb_image.patch
 popd
 
-# don’t use unversioned “python” interpreter in tests
-sed -r -i 's@(COMMAND )python@\1%{python3}@' wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt
-# we don’t need cmake as a python dependency
-sed -r -i '/cmake/d' wrappers/python/pyproject.toml
-# build verbosely:
-
-%generate_buildrequires
-pushd wrappers/python &>/dev/null
-%pyproject_buildrequires -r
-popd &>/dev/null
-
 %build
-# Setting BUILD_PYTHON_MODULE builds a Python extension shared library module,
-# but we don’t get any metadata (dist-info), so it’s not terribly useful for
-# packaging purposes. Instead, it seems we must re-build the whole library
-# through setuptools to get that.
-%cmake -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DBUILD_PYTHON_MODULE=ON
+%cmake -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
 %cmake_build
-pushd wrappers/python
-# CMake respects this environment variable. We need to see the compiler
-# invocations to verify the distro build flags are respected. Unfortunately,
-# pybind11 does add -O3, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn that off.
-# It’s a global pybind11 decision, not something in this package’s sources.
-export VERBOSE=1
-%pyproject_wheel
-popd
 
 %install
 %cmake_install
-pushd wrappers/python
-%pyproject_install
-# Now we do something sneaky: we substitute the Python extension that was built
-# in the original CMake invocation, replacing the one built with setuptools. It
-# is dynamically linked against the main libZXing.so, which makes it smaller,
-# and it was not built with that pesky -O3 that was added by pybind11, so it
-# better complies with packaging guidelines. The only problem is it contains an
-# rpath that we need to remove.
-popd
-install -t '%{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}' -p \
-    %{_vpath_builddir}/wrappers/python/zxingcpp.*.so
-chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}/zxingcpp.*.so
-pushd wrappers/python
-%pyproject_save_files zxingcpp
-popd
 
 %check
 %ctest
@@ -142,14 +89,6 @@ popd
 %{_libdir}/cmake/ZXing/
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/zxing.pc
 
-%files -n python3-%{name} -f %{pyproject_files}
-
 %changelog
-* Sat Jan 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Dec 14 2021 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> 1.2.0-2
-- build python bindings
-
 * Fri Dec 10 2021 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> 1.2.0-1
 - initial import