diff --git a/gdal.spec b/gdal.spec
index 405eea9..6d45ecf 100644
--- a/gdal.spec
+++ b/gdal.spec
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ Requires:       lib%{name}%{soversion} = %{version}
 Requires:       pkgconfig(libopenjp2)
 Provides:       lib%{name}%{soversion}-devel = %{version}
 Provides:       lib%{name}-devel = %{version}
-Obsoletes:      %{name}-devel < %{version}
 
 %description devel
 Development Libraries for the GDAL file format library