diff --git a/python-yt-dlp.spec b/python-yt-dlp.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index b11e455..0000000
--- a/python-yt-dlp.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-#
-# spec file for package python-yt-dlp
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
-#
-# All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
-# remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
-# upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the
-# file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the
-# license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which
-# case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a
-# license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
-# published by the Open Source Initiative.
-
-# Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
-#
-
-
-%define modname yt-dlp
-%{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
-Name:           python-yt-dlp
-Version:        2023.07.06
-Release:        0
-Summary:        Enhanced fork of youtube-dl, a video site downloader for offline watching
-License:        CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND SUSE-Public-Domain
-Group:          Productivity/Networking/Web/Utilities
-URL:            https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
-Source:         https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/%version/yt-dlp.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module xml}
-BuildRequires:  fdupes
-BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
-Requires:       ffmpeg
-Requires:       python-xml
-BuildArch:      noarch
-%python_subpackages
-
-%description
-yt-dlp is a python module to retrieve videos from
-YouTube.com and other video sites for later watching.
-
-%prep
-%autosetup -n %modname
-
-%build
-# remove shebang
-#sed -e '1d' -i yt_dlp/__init__.py yt_dlp/__main__.py \
-#               yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py yt_dlp/utils.py
-%python_build
-
-%install
-%python_install
-rm -rf %buildroot/%_bindir/yt-dlp %buildroot/%_bindir \
-       %buildroot/%_prefix/%_sysconfdir \
-       %buildroot/%_datadir %buildroot/%_mandir
-%python_expand %fdupes %buildroot/%{$python_sitelib}
-
-%files %python_files
-%license LICENSE
-%doc README.txt
-%python_sitelib/yt_dlp
-%python_sitelib/yt_dlp-*-py%python_version.egg-info
-
-%changelog
diff --git a/yt-dlp.changes b/yt-dlp.changes
index b06f959..ab76386 100644
--- a/yt-dlp.changes
+++ b/yt-dlp.changes
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Fri Jul  7 04:49:22 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
   * yt: Avoid false DRM detection
   * yt: Process post_live over 2 hours
   * yt: Support shorts-only playlists
+- Remove python3-yt-dlp, python-setuptools runtime is just broken
+  and cannot cope with Unicode in .py files:
+  ``UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in
+  position 14: invalid start byte``
 
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 Thu Jun 22 11:57:58 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>