diff --git a/xmlsec1.changes b/xmlsec1.changes
index 5a8f6c3..ec4d20a 100644
--- a/xmlsec1.changes
+++ b/xmlsec1.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 31 13:21:31 UTC 2018 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Drop the gnutls backend as based on the tests it is quite borked:
+  * We still have nss and openssl backend for people to use
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 31 12:00:28 UTC 2018 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xmlsec1.spec b/xmlsec1.spec
index 5e170eb..8c7fa24 100644
--- a/xmlsec1.spec
+++ b/xmlsec1.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 %global libname    libxmlsec1-1
 %global libopenssl libxmlsec1-openssl1
 %global libgcrypt  libxmlsec1-gcrypt1
-%global libgnutls  libxmlsec1-gnutls1
 %global libnss     libxmlsec1-nss1
 Name:           xmlsec1
 Version:        1.2.27
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libtool
 # Needed certutil for tests
 BuildRequires:  mozilla-nss-tools
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gnutls)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libxml-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libxslt)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(nspr)
@@ -65,15 +63,6 @@ Requires:       %{libname} = %{version}
 GCrypt plugin for XML Security Library provides GCrypt based crypto services
 for the xmlsec library.
 
-%package -n %{libgnutls}
-Summary:        GNUTls crypto plugin for XML Security Library
-Group:          System/Libraries
-Requires:       %{libname} = %{version}
-
-%description -n %{libgnutls}
-GNUTls plugin for XML Security Library provides GNUTls based crypto services
-for the xmlsec library.
-
 %package -n %{libnss}
 Summary:        NSS crypto plugin for XML Security Library
 Group:          System/Libraries
@@ -123,18 +112,6 @@ Requires:       %{name}-devel = %{version}
 %description gcrypt-devel
 Libraries, includes, etc. for developing XML Security applications with GCrypt.
 
-%package gnutls-devel
-Summary:        GNUTls crypto plugin for XML Security Library
-Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
-Requires:       %{libgnutls} = %{version}
-Requires:       %{name}-devel = %{version}
-Requires:       %{name}-openssl-devel = %{version}
-Requires:       gnutls-devel >= 1.0.20
-Requires:       libgcrypt-devel >= 1.2.0
-
-%description gnutls-devel
-Libraries, includes, etc. for developing XML Security applications with GNUTls.
-
 %package nss-devel
 Summary:        NSS crypto plugin for XML Security Library
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
@@ -171,8 +148,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-keys check-dsig check-enc
 %postun -n %{libname} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %post -n %{libgcrypt} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n %{libgcrypt} -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%post -n %{libgnutls} -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -n %{libgnutls} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %post -n %{libnss} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n %{libnss} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %post -n %{libopenssl} -p /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -193,11 +168,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-keys check-dsig check-enc
 %{_libdir}/libxmlsec1-gcrypt.so.*
 %{_libdir}/libxmlsec1-gcrypt.so
 
-%files -n %{libgnutls}
-%license COPYING
-%{_libdir}/libxmlsec1-gnutls.so.*
-%{_libdir}/libxmlsec1-gnutls.so
-
 %files -n %{libnss}
 %license COPYING
 %{_libdir}/libxmlsec1-nss.so.*
@@ -232,10 +202,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-keys check-dsig check-enc
 %{_includedir}/xmlsec1/xmlsec/gcrypt/
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xmlsec1-gcrypt.pc
 
-%files gnutls-devel
-%{_includedir}/xmlsec1/xmlsec/gnutls/
-%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xmlsec1-gnutls.pc
-
 %files nss-devel
 %{_includedir}/xmlsec1/xmlsec/nss/
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xmlsec1-nss.pc