diff --git a/percona-toolkit-2.2.5.tar.gz b/percona-toolkit-2.2.5.tar.gz
index a759e4c..4e1bf2f 100644
--- a/percona-toolkit-2.2.5.tar.gz
+++ b/percona-toolkit-2.2.5.tar.gz
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:3cea954b1f83d7949f5d4761c0b81a6cb646823d30546a0795a9d8fde9f8083b
-size 4309801
+oid sha256:a4066d2b605d3eff7f46bfe6b4f1bd77daecdf81d213a2c015c15a8ec6eb0be4
+size 1447292
diff --git a/percona-toolkit.changes b/percona-toolkit.changes
index 357ddfd..b3d39ca 100644
--- a/percona-toolkit.changes
+++ b/percona-toolkit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Oct 20 14:10:18 UTC 2013 - andreas.stieger@gmx.de
+
+- use re-released 2.2.5 tarball without backup files
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct 17 11:39:27 UTC 2013 - andreas.stieger@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/percona-toolkit.spec b/percona-toolkit.spec
index ca4ac76..8bcfd5d 100644
--- a/percona-toolkit.spec
+++ b/percona-toolkit.spec
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ This collection was formerly known as Maatkit.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-# remove backup files from tarball
-find -type f -name "*.~?~" -exec rm -v {} \;
 
 %build
 %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor < /dev/null