diff --git a/_service b/_service
deleted file mode 100644
index 32d65e5..0000000
--- a/_service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<services>
-  <service name="download_url" mode="localonly">
-    <param name="protocol">http</param>
-    <param name="host">gitorious.org</param>
-    <param name="path">/opensuse/pack-tools/blobs/raw/master/contrib/vim/spec.snippets</param>
-  </service>
-</services>
diff --git a/vim-plugins.changes b/vim-plugins.changes
index 76c573e..c08b64a 100644
--- a/vim-plugins.changes
+++ b/vim-plugins.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 27 10:51:45 UTC 2015 - astieger@suse.com
+
+- for spec.snippets, replace defunct _serv ce referencing
+  gitorious.org with plain gitlab URL
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun  8 20:00:20 UTC 2015 - astieger@suse.com
 
diff --git a/vim-plugins.spec b/vim-plugins.spec
index 76d5210..1f199c3 100644
--- a/vim-plugins.spec
+++ b/vim-plugins.spec
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Source30:       vimplugin-snipmate-%{snipmate_version}.tar.bz2
 Source31:       vimplugin-rails-%{rails_version}.tar.bz2
 Source32:       https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim/archive/%{ack_version}.tar.gz#/vimplugin-ack-%{ack_version}.tar.gz
 Source33:       vimplugin-ag-%{ag_version}.tar.bz2
-Source100:      spec.snippets
+Source100:      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/pack-tools/master/contrib/vim/spec.snippets
 Patch1:         locateopen-1.3-locate-support.patch
 BuildRequires:  vim
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build