diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index a0b7e51..0442249 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 13 10:39:54 CEST 2012 - ohering@suse.de
+
+- delete unused perl script without executable permissions to fix rpmlint warning
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 13 10:18:06 CEST 2012 - ohering@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 85b3f0d..bcb266f 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@ make \
 %makeinstall
 # Delete empty perl bootstrap files
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.bs" -size 0c -print -delete
+# Delete unused perl script without executable permissions
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%perl_vendorarch/ -name bindtests.pl -print -delete
 %perl_process_packlist
 %perl_gen_filelist
 # the macro above packages everything, here only the perl files are desrired