diff --git a/README b/README
deleted file mode 120000
index 92cacd2853..0000000000
--- a/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-README.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 94b1450071..f024f7bfc4 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ exit 0
 %files
 
 %files docs
-%doc AUTHORS NEWS.rst README README.rst
+%doc AUTHORS NEWS.rst README.rst
 %doc libvirt-docs/*
 
 %files daemon