diff --git a/icu.changes b/icu.changes
index c95eedd..a8fce09 100644
--- a/icu.changes
+++ b/icu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar  1 13:37:17 UTC 2021 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+- Drop SUSE_ASNEEDED as the issue was in binutils (boo#1182252).
+
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 Thu Feb 18 08:02:44 UTC 2021 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
 
diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index a5304bc..85a5aee 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ unzip %SOURCE3
 popd
 
 %build
-SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
 cd source
 mkdir -p data/out/tmp # build procedure forgets to do this on its own
 export CXXFLAGS="%optflags -DICU_DATA_DIR=\\\"%_datadir/icu/%version/\\\""