diff --git a/drop-m2r-dependency.patch b/drop-m2r-dependency.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e9b7838..0000000
--- a/drop-m2r-dependency.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-CHANGELOG.md is anyway missing in the sdist tarball
-
---- python-binary-memcached-0.31.1/setup.py
-+++ python-binary-memcached-0.31.1/setup.py
-@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
- import sys
- 
- from setuptools import setup
--from m2r import convert
- 
- 
- def read(filename):
-@@ -19,8 +18,8 @@
-     author="Jayson Reis",
-     author_email="santosdosreis@gmail.com",
-     description="A pure python module to access memcached via its binary protocol with SASL auth support",
--    long_description="{0}\n{1}".format(
--        read("README.rst"), convert(read("CHANGELOG.md"))
-+    long_description="{0}".format(
-+        read("README.rst")
-     ),
-     url="https://github.com/jaysonsantos/python-binary-memcached",
-     packages=["bmemcached", "bmemcached.client"],