diff --git a/alex.cabal b/alex.cabal
index 5a937bb0..e658c44b 100644
--- a/alex.cabal
+++ b/alex.cabal
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ extra-source-files:
         CHANGELOG.md
         README.md
         TODO
-        alex.spec
         doc/Makefile
         doc/aclocal.m4
         doc/alex.1.in
diff --git a/alex.spec b/alex.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 16e9dc90..00000000
--- a/alex.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-%define name    alex
-%define version 2.2
-%define release 1
-
-Name:           %{name}
-Version:        %{version}
-Release:        %{release}
-License:        BSD-like
-Group:          Development/Languages/Haskell
-URL:            http://haskell.org/alex/
-Source:         http://haskell.org/alex/dist/%{version}/alex-%{version}.tar.gz
-Packager:       Sven Panne <sven.panne@aedion.de>
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-Prefix:         %{_prefix}
-BuildRequires:  happy, ghc, docbook-dtd, docbook-xsl-stylesheets, libxslt, libxml2, fop, xmltex, dvips
-Summary:        The lexer generator for Haskell
-
-%description
-Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell, given a
-description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular
-expressions.  It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.
-
-%prep
-%setup -n alex-%{version}
-
-%build
-runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --docdir=%{_datadir}/doc/packages/%{name}
-runhaskell Setup.lhs build
-cd doc
-test -f configure || autoreconf
-./configure
-make html
-
-%install
-runhaskell Setup.lhs copy --destdir=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
-
-%clean
-rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc ANNOUNCE
-%doc LICENSE
-%doc README
-%doc TODO
-%doc doc/alex
-%doc examples
-%{prefix}/bin/alex
-%{prefix}/share/alex-%{version}