diff --git a/02-Spelling-typos.patch b/02-Spelling-typos.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1230a61..0000000
--- a/02-Spelling-typos.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 22:38:50 +0200
-Subject: Spelling typos
-
-Fix spelling typos found by lintian
----
- maa/sl.c | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
---- a/maa/sl.c
-+++ b/maa/sl.c
-@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ sl_List sl_create( int (*compare)( const
-    }
- 
-    if (!compare)
--      err_internal( __func__, "compare fuction is NULL\n" );
-+      err_internal( __func__, "compare function is NULL\n" );
-    if (!key)
--      err_internal( __func__, "key fuction is NULL\n" );
-+      err_internal( __func__, "key function is NULL\n" );
- 
-    l          = mem_get_object( _sl_Memory );
- #if MAA_MAGIC
diff --git a/03-Fix-gcc-8-ftbfs.patch b/03-Fix-gcc-8-ftbfs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f808e7e..0000000
--- a/03-Fix-gcc-8-ftbfs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-From: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 16:28:38 +0200
-Subject: Fix FTBFS with gcc-8
-
-Increase buffer size to fix build failures like the one below:
- ../log.c:328:40: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 4095 bytes into a region of size between 3838 and 4093 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
-   snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%s(%s) %s\n",
-
-Bugs-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/897789
----
- maa/log.c | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
---- a/maa/log.c
-+++ b/maa/log.c
-@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static void _log_base_va(
- {
-    va_list ap_copy;
-    time_t t;
--   static char   buf [4096] = "";
-+   static char   buf [8192] = "";
-    static char   buf_main [4096] = "";
-    static char   buf_preamble [256] = "";
- 
diff --git a/libmaa-1.4.2.tar.gz b/libmaa-1.4.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index fd668a3..0000000
--- a/libmaa-1.4.2.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:63de331c97a40efe8b64534fee4b7b7df161645b92636572ad248b0f13abc0db
-size 173607
diff --git a/libmaa-1.4.4.tar.gz b/libmaa-1.4.4.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..600a046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libmaa-1.4.4.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:fbd739e8467c4b7213594b172cfe3059443127313f8365224aa9c269498869e2
+size 172643
diff --git a/libmaa.changes b/libmaa.changes
index 2a079d7..8ee2d08 100644
--- a/libmaa.changes
+++ b/libmaa.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 23 22:06:51 MSK 2019 - vle@gmx.net
+
+- Update to libmaa-1.4.4:
+  * Fix compilation failure using gcc-8
+- Simplify build process using capabilities of mk-configure
+- Remove patches already applied in upstream, specifically
+  - 02-Spelling-typos.patch
+  - 03-Fix-gcc-8-ftbfs.patch
+- Fix License in rpm spec
+- Remove unnecessary dependencies from rpm spec
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Mar  7 23:47:47 CET 2019 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 1.4.3:
+  - Fix parallel build
+  - Explicitely enable WARNERR and remove gcc-ism from CFLAGS
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 28 10:11:12 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libmaa.spec b/libmaa.spec
index 683e259..5e98f3e 100644
--- a/libmaa.spec
+++ b/libmaa.spec
@@ -19,21 +19,14 @@
 %define soname 4
 
 Name:           libmaa
-Version:        1.4.2
+Version:        1.4.4
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Library providing many low-level data structures
-License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
+License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Url:            http://www.dict.org
 Source0:        https://downloads.sourceforge.net/dict/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         02-Spelling-typos.patch
-Patch1:         03-Fix-gcc-8-ftbfs.patch
-BuildRequires:  bison
-BuildRequires:  bmake
-BuildRequires:  flex
-BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  mk-configure
-BuildRequires:  pam-devel
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -71,17 +64,19 @@ This RPM contains the documentation files for libmaa.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%autopatch -p 1
+
+%define env \
+        unset MAKEFLAGS \
+        export MKSTATICLIB=no \
+        export NOSUBDIR=doc
 
 %build
-mkcmake PREFIX=%{_prefix} LIBDIR=%{_libdir}
+%{env}
+%{mkcmake}
 
 %install
-mkcmake install DESTDIR=%{?buildroot} \
-    PREFIX=%{_prefix} LIBDIR=%{_libdir}
-rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
-rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.a
-rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/libmaa
+%{env}
+%{mkcmake} install DESTDIR=%{?buildroot}
 
 %post -n %{name}%{soname} -p /sbin/ldconfig