diff --git a/shared-mime-info.changes b/shared-mime-info.changes
index 8ec6833..afed105 100644
--- a/shared-mime-info.changes
+++ b/shared-mime-info.changes
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ Thu Sep 16 02:05:30 UTC 2021 - Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.com>
 - Remove obsolete translation-update-upstream support
   (jsc#SLE-21105).
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul 30 07:32:24 UTC 2021 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Do not ghost own %{_datadir}/mime/[a-ms-vxX]*: as those
+  files/directories do not exist during build, RPM can't expand the
+  glob and adds it literally to the file list, not having any
+  effect in the end. A cleanup of the directory structure would not
+  work anyway, as there are also files generated inside.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  6 12:41:52 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/shared-mime-info.spec b/shared-mime-info.spec
index 75aff69..24b38f8 100644
--- a/shared-mime-info.spec
+++ b/shared-mime-info.spec
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ export PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC=0
 %{_datadir}/mime/packages/*.xml
 %{_datadir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
 %{_datadir}/gettext/its/shared-mime-info.*
-%ghost %{_datadir}/mime/[a-ms-vxX]*
 %{_mandir}/man?/*%{ext_man}
 %{_rpmmacrodir}/macros.shared-mime-info