diff --git a/apache-commons-collections.spec b/apache-commons-collections.spec
index ff7f576..fe3ab1d 100644
--- a/apache-commons-collections.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-collections.spec
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' LICENSE.txt PROPOSAL.html README.txt NOTICE.txt
 cp -p %{SOURCE1} pom-testframework.xml
 sed -i 's/@VERSION@/%{version}/' pom-testframework.xml
 
+%pom_remove_parent .
+
 %build
 echo "junit.jar=$(build-classpath junit)" >>build.properties
 ant \