diff --git a/memcached.changes b/memcached.changes
index b780790..dc0ebc6 100644
--- a/memcached.changes
+++ b/memcached.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri May 27 12:41:52 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- follow fedora's lead and remove Werror
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May  6 12:03:59 UTC 2010 - freitag@novell.com
 
diff --git a/memcached.spec b/memcached.spec
index 717145e..3e8dd14 100644
--- a/memcached.spec
+++ b/memcached.spec
@@ -62,12 +62,6 @@ almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better
 resource utilization, and faster access to the databases on a memcache
 miss.
 
-
-
-Authors:
---------
-    Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>
-
 %prep
 %setup -n %{pkg_name}-%{pkg_version}
 %patch0 -p1
@@ -76,6 +70,7 @@ Authors:
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -g"
 %configure --bindir=%{_sbindir}
+sed -i 's/-Werror/ /' Makefile
 %{__make}
 
 %check