diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index 234606f..a0be1a0 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 24 08:28:02 UTC 2020 - Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com>
+
+- Disable building examples to prevent vtkLocalExample.java
+  randomly missing from vtk.jar (boo#1138295, see also upstream
+  recommendation in
+  https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues/17619).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 11 13:17:49 UTC 2020 - Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index 8943ba0..da80d36 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 # since JDK8.
 %cmake \
     -DBUILD_DOCUMENTATION:BOOL=ON \
-    -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=ON \
+    -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=OFF \
     -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
     -DCMAKE_NO_BUILTIN_CHRPATH:BOOL=ON \
     -DJava_JAVAH_EXECUTABLE:PATH=%{_bindir}/true \
@@ -559,9 +559,10 @@ python3 -c "import vtk"
 %dir %{my_libdir}/qt5/plugins/designer/
 %{my_libdir}/qt5/plugins/designer/libQVTKWidgetPlugin.so
 
-%if "%{flavor}" == ""
-%files examples -f examples.list
-%license Copyright.txt
-%endif
+# FIXME: UNCOMMENT WHEN VERSION 9.0 IS PACKAGED [https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues/17619]
+#%%if "%%{flavor}" == ""
+#%%files examples -f examples.list
+#%%license Copyright.txt
+#%%endif
 
 %changelog