diff --git a/lua54.changes b/lua54.changes
index 13502f6..0da7f6b 100644
--- a/lua54.changes
+++ b/lua54.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar  7 10:19:17 UTC 2022 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Drop the lua_docdir define, package docs in the standard
+  location. Instead just silently drop packaging the README with
+  the path that does not makes sense for a rpm package, but for a
+  source tarball install. Simpler solution to boo#1186233.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 26 19:15:13 UTC 2022 - Callum Farmer <gmbr3@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/lua54.spec b/lua54.spec
index 995e523..d40fa91 100644
--- a/lua54.spec
+++ b/lua54.spec
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 %endif
 %define major_version 5.4
 %define libname liblua5_4-5
-%define lua_docdir %{_datadir}/doc/lua%{major_version}
+
 Name:           lua54%{name_ext}
 Version:        5.4.4
 Release:        0
@@ -204,11 +204,6 @@ touch %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/liblua.so
 ln -sf %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/liblua.so %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/liblua.so
 touch %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/lua.pc
 ln -sf %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/lua.pc %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/lua.pc
-# doc
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{lua_docdir}/doc
-install -Dm644 README %{buildroot}%{lua_docdir}
-install -Dm644 doc/* %{buildroot}%{lua_docdir}/doc
-rm %{buildroot}%{lua_docdir}/doc/*.1
 %else
 %check
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%{_libdir} %{_bindir}/lua%{major_version} all.lua
@@ -241,8 +236,6 @@ if [ "$1" = 0 ] ; then
 fi
 
 %files
-%dir %{lua_docdir}
-%doc %{lua_docdir}/README
 %dir %{_libdir}/lua
 %dir %{_libdir}/lua/%{major_version}
 %dir %{_datadir}/lua
@@ -281,8 +274,7 @@ fi
 %ghost %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/lua.pc
 
 %files doc
-%dir %{lua_docdir}/doc
-%doc %{lua_docdir}/doc/*
+%doc doc/*
 
 %endif
 %changelog