diff --git a/update-alternatives.changes b/update-alternatives.changes
index ce1f6d3..47efb05 100644
--- a/update-alternatives.changes
+++ b/update-alternatives.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr  2 20:04:25 UTC 2019 - Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
+
+- Remove useless uses of rpm.expand
+- Fix use of file:close
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 13 09:15:51 UTC 2019 - Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/update-alternatives.spec b/update-alternatives.spec
index 5b4cf99..630d99a 100644
--- a/update-alternatives.spec
+++ b/update-alternatives.spec
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ if posix.access('var/lib/rpm/alternatives', 'x') then
   print("migrating update alternatives database to new location")
   -- We proceed even if no alternatives directory exists, such situation
   -- occurs in buildroot environment
-  new_location=rpm.expand('%{_localstatedir}/lib/alternatives/')
+  new_location='%{_localstatedir}/lib/alternatives/'
   for i,old_file in pairs(posix.dir("var/lib/rpm/alternatives/")) do
     print(old_file.."\n")
     new_file = string.gsub(old_file, "(.*/)(.*)", new_location .. "%2")
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ if posix.access('var/lib/rpm/alternatives', 'x') then
   posix.rmdir('var/lib/rpm/alternatives')
 end
 -- touch file
-new_file = io.open(rpm.expand('%{_localstatedir}/log/alternatives.log'), "w")
-new_file.close()
+io.open('%{_localstatedir}/log/alternatives.log', "w"):close()
 
 %files
 %license COPYING