diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f013c72b..235d8dcb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Makefile.in
 /geany.gladep.bak
 /geany.pc
 /geany.nsi
-/geany.spec
 /global.tags.old
 /install-sh
 /intltool
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index b5e60806..f93f33a2 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	scripts/gen-api-gtkdoc.py \
 	geany.desktop.in \
 	geany.pc.in \
-	geany.spec \
 	ChangeLog.pre-1-22 \
 	HACKING \
 	README.I18N \
diff --git a/README.Packagers b/README.Packagers
index 39a59c66..e0b8a158 100644
--- a/README.Packagers
+++ b/README.Packagers
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ distribution/target and these changes might be generally useful, please
 report your changes to us(the Geany developers) so we can apply them.
 Such changes could be removing/adding any files, modifying the autotools
 configuration, any modifications to some "meta" files (like
-geany.desktop, geany.spec, images/icons, ...) or even if you have to
+geany.desktop, images/icons, ...) or even if you have to
 modify the source code to fix broken compilation or something like this.
 Please inform us about changes you made, so maybe you don't have to
 change it again with the next release and we can fix it in Geany itself
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b34ed9b9..16762200 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 		data/Makefile
 		doc/Makefile
 		doc/geany.1
-		geany.spec
 		geany.pc
 		geany.nsi
 		doc/Doxyfile
diff --git a/geany.spec.in b/geany.spec.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 11e6cda0..00000000
--- a/geany.spec.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-# Note: This spec file is very basic to provide functionality
-# on all known RPM based distributions.
-# It's stronly recommended to use packages of your own distributor
-
-Name:          geany
-Version:       @VERSION@
-Release:       1
-Summary:       A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK+
-
-Group:         Development/Tools
-License:       GPLv2+
-URL:           https://www.geany.org/
-Vendor:        The Geany developer team <info@geany.org>
-Packager:      Dominic Hopf <dmaphy@googlemail.com>
-Source:        http://download.geany.org/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-
-# The following tags files were retrieved 2nd Jan 2010
-# You will have to download these and put them into your rpmbuild/SOURCES directory,
-# otherwise comment these lines out
-Source1:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/sqlite3.c.tags
-Source2:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/std.glsl.tags
-Source3:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/gtk218.c.tags
-Source4:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/xfce46.c.tags
-Source5:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/dbus-glib-0.76.c.tags
-Source6:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/standard.css.tags
-Source7:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/geany-api-0.18.c.tags
-Source8:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/std.vala.tags
-Source9:   http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/drupal.php.tags
-Source10:  http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/std.latex.tags
-Source11:  http://download.geany.org/contrib/tags/libxml-2.0.c.tags
-
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-Requires:      glib2, gtk2, pango
-BuildRequires: glib2-devel, gtk2-devel, pango-devel, gettext, intltool
-
-%description
-Geany is a small and fast integrated development environment with basic
-features and few dependencies to other packages or Desktop Environments.
-
-Some features:
-- Syntax highlighting
-- Code completion
-- Code folding
-- Construct completion/snippets
-- Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
-- Call tips
-- Support for Many languages like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
-- symbol lists and symbol name auto-completion
-- Code navigation
-- Simple project management
-- Plugin interface
-
-%package devel
-Summary:   Header files for building Geany plug-ins
-Group:     Development/Tools
-Requires:  geany = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:  pkgconfig gtk2-devel
-
-%description devel
-This package contains the header files and pkg-config file needed for building
-Geany plug-ins. You do not need to install this package to use Geany.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-%build
-%configure
-%__make
-
-%install
-%__rm -Rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%makeinstall
-# If you experience build problems like
-# "Found '/home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/geany-0.16svn-3328.i386' in installed files; aborting"
-# try uncommenting the following line to workaround the problem (and add sed to BuildRequires)
-#sed -i "s@libdir='.*'@libdir='%{_libdir}/%{name}'@g" $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/%{name}/*.la
-
-%__rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
-
-# Install tags files
-# comment the following two lines out if you didn't download the tags files mentioned
-# above
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/%{name}/tags/
-install -p %{SOURCE1} %{SOURCE2} %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE5} %{SOURCE6} %{SOURCE7} %{SOURCE8} %{SOURCE9} %{SOURCE10} %{SOURCE11} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/%{name}/tags/
-
-%clean
-%__rm -Rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%files
-%defattr(-, root, root, -)
-%doc %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}/*
-%doc %{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1.gz
-
-%{_bindir}/%{name}
-%{_datadir}/%{name}
-%{_libdir}/%{name}
-%{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop
-%{_datadir}/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/%{name}.mo
-%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/*.png
-%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/*.png
-%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/*.svg
-
-
-%files devel
-%defattr(-, root, root, -)
-%{_includedir}/geany
-%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/geany.pc