diff --git a/plexus-compiler.changes b/plexus-compiler.changes
index 1f879a3..d820cbe 100644
--- a/plexus-compiler.changes
+++ b/plexus-compiler.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 29 05:48:03 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Do not distribute the parent poms, since they only bring in more
+  dependencies
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 11 09:39:14 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/plexus-compiler.spec b/plexus-compiler.spec
index febcdb0..cf0c10d 100644
--- a/plexus-compiler.spec
+++ b/plexus-compiler.spec
@@ -59,21 +59,10 @@ Requires:       mvn(org.eclipse.jdt:ecj)
 %description extras
 Additional support for csharp, eclipse and jikes compilers
 
-%package pom
-Summary:        Maven POM files for %{name}
-License:        MIT AND Apache-2.0
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Java
-Requires:       mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api) = %{version}
-Requires:       mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-metadata)
-Requires:       mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-components:pom:)
-
-%description pom
-This package provides %{summary}.
-
 %package javadoc
 Summary:        Javadoc for %{name}
 License:        MIT AND Apache-2.0 AND Apache-1.1
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Java
+Group:          Documentation/HTML
 
 %description javadoc
 API documentation for %{name}.
@@ -124,11 +113,6 @@ done
 
 # poms
 install -dm 0755 %{buildroot}%{_mavenpomdir}/%{name}
-# These ones will be in the *-pom package
-install -pm 0644 pom.xml %{buildroot}%{_mavenpomdir}/%{name}/plexus-compiler.pom
-%add_maven_depmap  %{name}/plexus-compiler.pom -f pom
-install -pm 0644 plexus-compilers/pom.xml %{buildroot}%{_mavenpomdir}/%{name}/plexus-compilers.pom
-%add_maven_depmap  %{name}/plexus-compilers.pom -f pom
 # These ones belong to the *-extras package
 for i in plexus-compilers/plexus-compiler-csharp plexus-compilers/plexus-compiler-eclipse \
 		 plexus-compilers/plexus-compiler-jikes; do
@@ -160,8 +144,6 @@ done
 
 %files extras -f .mfiles-extras
 
-%files pom -f .mfiles-pom
-
 %files javadoc
 %license LICENSE LICENSE.MIT
 %{_javadocdir}/%{name}