diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index a9b40b1..9b03811 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -21,5 +21,3 @@
 *.xz filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.zip filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.zst filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-## Specific LFS patterns
-talloc-2.1.1.tar filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/talloc-2.1.1.tar b/talloc-2.1.1.tar
deleted file mode 100644
index 82759f3..0000000
--- a/talloc-2.1.1.tar
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:6ea5f6b7b582bbba9787f2e150e72b6a2f160df997fc6d66b1272a2fb64cec9c
-size 1751040
diff --git a/talloc-2.1.1.tar.gz b/talloc-2.1.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fe4ff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talloc-2.1.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:3e29ce6c3ba3c4f7c2d57ce8cf0fbc24c86618c519f2b2fb6a459025488b6174
+size 418564
diff --git a/talloc.changes b/talloc.changes
index c1fab0f..a9b9265 100644
--- a/talloc.changes
+++ b/talloc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov  6 13:06:50 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
+
+- Use the upstream tar ball, as signature verification is now able to handle
+  compressed archives.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri May 23 19:15:38 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
 
diff --git a/talloc.spec b/talloc.spec
index 8c425cc..4457d9d 100644
--- a/talloc.spec
+++ b/talloc.spec
@@ -43,13 +43,7 @@ PreReq:         /sbin/ldconfig
 Summary:        Samba talloc Library
 License:        LGPL-3.0+
 Group:          System/Libraries
-# Unfortunately upstream is mindboggingly stupid here by gpg signing the
-# uncompressed tarball, but not publishing the uncompressed tarball but
-# only a compressed one. so we need to unpack it manually so that
-# gpg verification works, but then we can't have download verification
-
-# http://download.samba.org/pub/talloc/talloc-%{version}.tar
-Source:         talloc-%{version}.tar
+Source:         http://download.samba.org/pub/talloc/talloc-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://download.samba.org/pub/talloc/talloc-%{version}.tar.asc
 Source4:        baselibs.conf
 Source50:       %name.keyring