diff --git a/no-bundled-packages.patch b/no-bundled-packages.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f7f929..0000000
--- a/no-bundled-packages.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru s3transfer-0.6.0.orig/s3transfer/__init__.py s3transfer-0.6.0/s3transfer/__init__.py
---- s3transfer-0.6.0.orig/s3transfer/__init__.py	2022-05-31 20:37:19.000000000 +0200
-+++ s3transfer-0.6.0/s3transfer/__init__.py	2022-06-03 13:37:36.897087996 +0200
-@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
- 
- from botocore.compat import six  # noqa: F401
- from botocore.exceptions import IncompleteReadError
--from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import (
-+from urllib3.exceptions import (
-     ReadTimeoutError,
- )
- 
diff --git a/python-s3transfer.changes b/python-s3transfer.changes
index c763cd0..2ff8edb 100644
--- a/python-s3transfer.changes
+++ b/python-s3transfer.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 30 11:20:14 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- drop no-bundled-packages.patch to allow unpinning urllib3 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 17 05:54:20 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-s3transfer.spec b/python-s3transfer.spec
index 2efb17f..b3906c5 100644
--- a/python-s3transfer.spec
+++ b/python-s3transfer.spec
@@ -26,17 +26,14 @@ License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/boto/s3transfer
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/s/s3transfer/s3transfer-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1:         no-bundled-packages.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module botocore >= 1.12.36}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module urllib3 with %python-urllib3 < 2}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 Requires:       python-botocore <= 2.0.0
 Requires:       python-botocore >= 1.12.36
 Requires:       python-requests
-Requires:       python-urllib3 < 2
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %python_subpackages
@@ -46,7 +43,6 @@ A transfer manager for Amazon Web Services S3
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n s3transfer-%{version}
-%patch1 -p1
 # remove integration tests that need running s3
 rm -rf tests/integration