diff --git a/_service b/_service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f847980
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_service
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<services>
+  <service name="tar_scm" mode="disabled">
+    <param name="version">13.2</param>
+    <param name="versionformat">13.2+git%cd.%h</param>
+    <param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/brp-check-suse.git</param>
+    <param name="scm">git</param>
+  </service>
+  <service name="recompress" mode="disabled">
+    <param name="compression">xz</param>
+    <param name="file">*.tar</param>
+  </service>
+  <service name="set_version" mode="disabled"/>
+</services>
diff --git a/brp-check-suse-1.0.tar.bz2 b/brp-check-suse-1.0.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b75f4c..0000000
--- a/brp-check-suse-1.0.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:5d580ca5242d8c23f5943b7893a84e514c54a7d72848f96f754813cc314d2dab
-size 63971
diff --git a/brp-check-suse-13.2+git20140224.a3fcc48.tar.xz b/brp-check-suse-13.2+git20140224.a3fcc48.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90c6210
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brp-check-suse-13.2+git20140224.a3fcc48.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:f62c7dc246ed7a9eb53fcc34e5264df3faa056941c1b4cacaeb9d8e792f73e5b
+size 66000
diff --git a/brp-check-suse.changes b/brp-check-suse.changes
index b87fe38..be81389 100644
--- a/brp-check-suse.changes
+++ b/brp-check-suse.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 24 09:14:36 UTC 2014 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- switch to _service fetching from github
+- fix brp-symlinks to avoid errors on links to alternatives and
+  remove check-broken-symlinks.diff
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 12 12:33:25 UTC 2012 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/brp-check-suse.spec b/brp-check-suse.spec
index 010dd9f..1a9d004 100644
--- a/brp-check-suse.spec
+++ b/brp-check-suse.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package brp-check-suse
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2014 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -23,19 +23,14 @@ License:        GPL-2.0+
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
 # we need the full perl because of XML Parsing and utf-8 
 Requires:       perl
-Version:        1.0
+Version:        13.2+git20140224.a3fcc48
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://gitorious.org/opensuse/brp-check-suse/
 #
 # Note: don't rebuild this manually. Instead submit your patches
-# for inclusion in the git repo!
+# for inclusion in the git repo at https://github.com/openSUSE/brp-check-suse
 #
-# git clone git://gitorious.org/opensuse/brp-check-suse.git
-# cd post-build-checks
-# make package
-#
-Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Patch0:         check-broken-symlinks.diff
+Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %global provfind sh -c "grep -v 'brp-desktop.data' | %__find_provides"
 %global __find_provides %provfind
@@ -50,7 +45,6 @@ build root checking or in parts implemeting SUSE policies.
 %ifnarch x86_64 s390x ppc64
 rm brp-65-lib64-linux
 %endif
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 # nothing to do
diff --git a/check-broken-symlinks.diff b/check-broken-symlinks.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c35871..0000000
--- a/check-broken-symlinks.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-Index: brp-check-suse-1.0/brp-25-symlink
-===================================================================
---- brp-check-suse-1.0.orig/brp-25-symlink	2012-03-13 13:52:11.000000000 +0100
-+++ brp-check-suse-1.0/brp-25-symlink	2012-07-01 21:37:11.698384089 +0200
-@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ do
- 	fi
-     done
- 
-+    if test "$link" = "$link_dest"; then
-+      echo "ERROR: $link points to itself (as $orig_link_dest)"
-+      exit 1
-+    fi
-+
-     # black list
-     case "$link,$link_dest" in
- 	*,/var/lib/named*)