diff --git a/gnubg.changes b/gnubg.changes
index 798b179..1645ef7 100644
--- a/gnubg.changes
+++ b/gnubg.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 18 10:40:48 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Remove local copy of glib-gettext.m4 in case we have one
+  available on the system. It can't be older than what gnubg ships.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 15 16:45:05 UTC 2015 - p.drouand@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/gnubg.spec b/gnubg.spec
index 363bd62..3e456ee 100644
--- a/gnubg.spec
+++ b/gnubg.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package gnubg
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 # Copyright (c) 2003 Achim Mueller, Germany.
 # Updated by Christopher Hofmann in 2010
 #
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ Manual for GNU Backgammon. See description of gnubg for more details.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q gnubg
+# if we have a glib-gettext.m4 installed in the system, we drop the
+# local copy in gnubg. It certainly is older
+if [ -f %{_datadir}/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4 ]; then
+  rm m4/glib-gettext.m4
+fi
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi