diff --git a/valgrind.changes b/valgrind.changes
index 8f610ff..217817f 100644
--- a/valgrind.changes
+++ b/valgrind.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  6 02:53:30 UTC 2018 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
+
+- drop unreproducible unused .a files to make the package build
+  reproducible (boo#1118163)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Nov 25 21:06:20 UTC 2018 - olaf@aepfle.de
 
diff --git a/valgrind.spec b/valgrind.spec
index 13fe772..5570a77 100644
--- a/valgrind.spec
+++ b/valgrind.spec
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ popd
 
 %install
 make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install %{?_smp_mflags}
+rm %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/valgrind/lib*.a # drop unreproducible unused files to fix boo#1118163
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_defaultdocdir}
 if test -d %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/valgrind; then
      mv %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/valgrind %{buildroot}/%{_defaultdocdir}
@@ -289,7 +290,6 @@ VALGRIND_LIB=$PWD/.in_place VALGRIND_LIB_INNER=$PWD/.in_place ./coregrind/valgri
 %{_libdir}/valgrind/s390x-vx-linux.xml
 
 %files devel
-%{_libdir}/valgrind/lib*.a
 %{_includedir}/valgrind
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/valgrind.pc