diff --git a/vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch b/vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79fe883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Index: vlc-3.0.0/modules/text_renderer/freetype/text_layout.c
+===================================================================
+--- vlc-3.0.0.orig/modules/text_renderer/freetype/text_layout.c
++++ vlc-3.0.0/modules/text_renderer/freetype/text_layout.c
+@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
+ 
+ /* RTL */
+ #if defined(HAVE_FRIBIDI)
+-# define FRIBIDI_NO_DEPRECATED 1
+ # include <fribidi.h>
+ #endif
+ 
diff --git a/vlc.changes b/vlc.changes
index acae3ae..5f9299b 100644
--- a/vlc.changes
+++ b/vlc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb 18 10:01:28 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch: Allow the usage of
+  deprecated fribidi functions. Disallowing deprecated stuff is
+  good during the dev phase, but once released, it is just becoming
+  a pain.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Feb 14 20:12:18 UTC 2018 - bjorn.lie@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/vlc.spec b/vlc.spec
index 6b4cf94..da6b0bb 100644
--- a/vlc.spec
+++ b/vlc.spec
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Source1:        %{name}.changes
 Source2:        %{name}-rpmlintrc
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vlc.a52.patch https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3731 dimstar@opensuse.org -- Support new version of liba52
 Patch0:         vlc.a52.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Allow usage of deprecated fribidi functions
+Patch1:         vlc-allow-deprecated-fribidi.patch
 # PATCH-FEATURE-OPENSUSE vlc-projectM-qt5.patch -- Build against projectM-qt5; openSUSE provides projectM as -qt and -qt5 variant
 Patch100:       vlc-projectM-qt5.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
@@ -318,6 +320,7 @@ default when `vlc` is invoked from an X session.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch1 -p1
 %patch100 -p1
 
 ### And LUA 5.3.1 has some more API changes