diff --git a/mutter.changes b/mutter.changes
index 36bbfcb..0fd3fcb 100644
--- a/mutter.changes
+++ b/mutter.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-Wed Dec  2 12:04:17 CET 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
-
-- Update the way we remove the ha, la, ig locales for old versions
-  of openSUSE.
-
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct  8 18:47:29 CEST 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/mutter.spec b/mutter.spec
index 01b7875..76437e8 100644
--- a/mutter.spec
+++ b/mutter.spec
@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ to develop applications that require these.
 
 %install
 %makeinstall
-%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
-%{__rm} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/*
-%{__rm} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/*
-%{__rm} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/locale/ig/LC_MESSAGES/*
-%endif
 %{__rm} %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/*.la
 %suse_update_desktop_file %{name}
 %find_lang %{name}
@@ -112,6 +107,12 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %doc %{_mandir}/man*/*
 
 %files lang -f %{name}.lang
+%if %suse_version <= 1110
+# exclude locales which don't exist on old versions of openSUSE
+%exclude %{_datadir}/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/*
+%exclude %{_datadir}/locale/ig/LC_MESSAGES/*
+%exclude %{_datadir}/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/*
+%endif
 
 %files devel
 %defattr (-, root, root)