diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 5391fd6..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
-tevent-0.9.22.tar filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/tevent-0.9.22.tar b/tevent-0.9.22.tar
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b91918..0000000
--- a/tevent-0.9.22.tar
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:001ff1f90d8fbcf5c2f988772b21377d6ef2a7ff6630af63fb1c5a95cd9b192b
-size 2324480
diff --git a/tevent-0.9.22.tar.gz b/tevent-0.9.22.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b50e774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tevent-0.9.22.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:544f1d02a105a1e8799374137e5170be3451afcc88e3a2801bce44cde988de57
+size 553674
diff --git a/tevent.changes b/tevent.changes
index d1db50a..b869fcb 100644
--- a/tevent.changes
+++ b/tevent.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov  6 13:21:57 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
+
+- Use the upstream tar ball, as signature verification is now able to handle
+  compressed archives.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 28 15:45:11 UTC 2014 - lmuelle@suse.com
 
diff --git a/tevent.spec b/tevent.spec
index fb47aa4..751e579 100644
--- a/tevent.spec
+++ b/tevent.spec
@@ -42,13 +42,7 @@ Release:        0
 Summary:        An event system based on the talloc memory management library
 License:        GPL-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/tevent/tevent-%{version}.tar.gz
-Source:         tevent-%{version}.tar
+Source:         http://download.samba.org/pub/tevent/tevent-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://download.samba.org/pub/tevent/tevent-%{version}.tar.asc
 Source2:        tevent.keyring
 Source4:        baselibs.conf