diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index f2280ab..a0b7e51 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 13 10:18:06 CEST 2012 - ohering@suse.de
+
+- delete empty perl bootstrap files to fix rpmlint warning
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 13 10:12:11 CEST 2012 - ohering@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index c18764a..85b3f0d 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ make \
 
 %install
 %makeinstall
+# Delete empty perl bootstrap files
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.bs" -size 0c -print -delete
 %perl_process_packlist
 %perl_gen_filelist
 # the macro above packages everything, here only the perl files are desrired