diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer
index a1ac5847..e61c91f0 100644
--- a/README.maintainer
+++ b/README.maintainer
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ Release Reminders
    locations:
 
      configure.ac
-     qpdf.spec
      libqpdf/QPDF.cc
      manual/qpdf-manual.xml
 
diff --git a/make_dist b/make_dist
index de6d3f1b..b8dffd23 100755
--- a/make_dist
+++ b/make_dist
@@ -72,17 +72,6 @@ while (<$fh>)
 }
 $fh->close();
 
-$fh = safe_open("qpdf.spec");
-my $spec_version = 'unknown';
-while (<$fh>)
-{
-    if (m/Version: (.*)$/)
-    {
-	$spec_version = $1;
-	last;
-    }
-}
-
 my $version_error = 0;
 if ($version ne $config_version)
 {
@@ -99,11 +88,6 @@ if ($version ne $doc_version)
     print "$whoami: qpdf-manual.xml version = $doc_version\n";
     $version_error = 1;
 }
-if ($version ne $spec_version)
-{
-    print "$whoami: qpdf.spec version = $spec_version\n";
-    $version_error = 1;
-}
 if ($version_error)
 {
     die "$whoami: version numbers are not consistent\n";
diff --git a/qpdf.spec b/qpdf.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index c0cba7aa..00000000
--- a/qpdf.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files
-Name: qpdf
-Version: 4.0.1
-Release: 1%{?dist}
-License: Artistic
-Group: System Environment/Libraries
-URL: http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/
-
-Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
-BuildRequires: zlib-devel
-BuildRequires: pcre-devel
-
-%description
-QPDF is a program that does structural, content-preserving
-transformations on PDF files.  It could have been called something
-like pdf-to-pdf.  It also provides many useful capabilities to
-developers of PDF-producing software or for people who just want to
-look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more about how they work.
-
-QPDF offers many capabilities such as linearization (web
-optimization), encrypt, and decription of PDF files.  Note that QPDF
-does not have the capability to create PDF files from scratch; it is
-only used to create PDF files with special characteristics starting
-from other PDF files or to inspect or extract information from
-existing PDF files.
-
-%package devel
-Summary: Development files for qpdf PDF manipulation library
-Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} zlib-devel pcre-devel
-
-%description devel
-The qpdf-devel package contains header files and libraries necessary
-for developing programs using the qpdf library.
-
-%package static
-Summary: Static QPDF library
-Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}
-
-%description static
-The qpdf-static package contains the static qpdf library.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-%build
-%configure --disable-test-compare-images --docdir='${datarootdir}'/doc/%{name}-%{version}
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-make check
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%makeinstall
-# %doc below clobbers our docdir, so we have to copy it to a safe
-# place so we can install it using %doc.  We should still set docdir
-# properly when configuring so that it gets substituted properly by
-# autoconf.
-cp -a $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version} install-docs
-mkdir -p install-examples/examples
-cp -p examples/*.cc examples/*.c install-examples/examples
-# Red Hat doesn't ship .la files.
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libqpdf.la
-
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc README TODO Artistic-2.0 install-docs/*
-%{_bindir}/*
-%{_libdir}/libqpdf*.so.*
-%{_mandir}/man1/*
-
-%files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc install-examples/examples
-%{_includedir}/*
-%{_libdir}/libqpdf*.so
-%{_libdir}/pkgconfig
-
-%files static
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%{_libdir}/libqpdf*.a
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%changelog
-* Mon Apr 28 2008 Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> - 2.0-1
-- Initial packaging