diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 45c3c92..9b03811 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -21,5 +21,3 @@
 *.xz filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.zip filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.zst filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-## Specific LFS patterns
-ldb-1.1.17.tar filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/ldb-1.1.17.tar b/ldb-1.1.17.tar
deleted file mode 100644
index 85b6919..0000000
--- a/ldb-1.1.17.tar
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:2706e3df93dcaed10252d463e7d691fc3b8cf0d25478c186b07c633ca56a2aa3
-size 6010880
diff --git a/ldb-1.1.17.tar.gz b/ldb-1.1.17.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5669b89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldb-1.1.17.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:b9a312aad19e9463716d257d8f2529fd7fc1a5ef24f6dcdc0c4a1930d7bdb6e6
+size 1177926
diff --git a/ldb.changes b/ldb.changes
index 9cd8055..7323563 100644
--- a/ldb.changes
+++ b/ldb.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov  6 13:24:43 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
+
+- Use the upstream tar ball, as signature verification is now able to handle
+  compressed archives.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 28 14:41:43 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
 
diff --git a/ldb.spec b/ldb.spec
index da491a1..7543f3b 100644
--- a/ldb.spec
+++ b/ldb.spec
@@ -45,13 +45,7 @@ Release:        0
 Summary:        An LDAP-like embedded database
 License:        GPL-3.0+
 Group:          System/Libraries
-# Unfortunately upstream is mindboggingly stupid here by gpg signing the
-# uncompressed tarball, but not publishing the uncompressed tarball but
-# only a compressed one. so we need to unpack it manually so that
-# gpg verification works, but then we can't have download verification
-
-# http://download.samba.org/pub/ldb/ldb-%{version}.tar.gz
-Source:         ldb-%{version}.tar
+Source:         http://download.samba.org/pub/ldb/ldb-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://download.samba.org/pub/ldb/ldb-%{version}.tar.asc
 Source2:        ldb.keyring
 Source4:        baselibs.conf