diff --git a/rpmlint.changes b/rpmlint.changes
index 317a430..40950cc 100644
--- a/rpmlint.changes
+++ b/rpmlint.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul  9 19:37:57 UTC 2018 - dmueller@suse.com
 
-- drop obsolete suse-no-run-ldconfig.diff
+- drop obsolete suse-no-run-ldconfig.diff,
+  suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts.diff
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul  5 16:48:30 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
diff --git a/rpmlint.spec b/rpmlint.spec
index b516da7..c8084a2 100644
--- a/rpmlint.spec
+++ b/rpmlint.spec
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ Patch49:        extend-suse-conffiles-check.diff
 Patch50:        compressed-backup-regex.diff
 Patch51:        suse-speccheck-utf8.diff
 Patch52:        0001-Accept-python-abi-as-a-valid-versioned-python-depend.patch
-Patch53:        suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts.diff
 Patch54:        suse-ignore-specfile-errors.diff
 Patch55:        invalid-filerequires.diff
 Patch57:        check-for-self-provides.diff
diff --git a/suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts.diff b/suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 958201e..0000000
--- a/suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From: Some One <nobody@opensuse.org>
-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:55:40 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] suse-manpages-for-rc-scripts
-
-===================================================================
----
- FilesCheck.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Index: rpmlint-rpmlint-1.10/FilesCheck.py
-===================================================================
---- rpmlint-rpmlint-1.10.orig/FilesCheck.py
-+++ rpmlint-rpmlint-1.10/FilesCheck.py
-@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ class FilesCheck(AbstractCheck.AbstractC
-         for exe, paths in bindir_exes.items():
-             if len(paths) > 1:
-                 printWarning(pkg, "duplicate-executable", exe, paths)
--            if exe not in man_basenames:
-+            if exe not in man_basenames and not exe.startswith("rc") and len(paths) is not 0:
-                 printWarning(pkg, "no-manual-page-for-binary", exe)
- 
-