diff --git a/desktop-file-utils-0.10-dont-use-unintialized-memory.patch b/desktop-file-utils-0.10-dont-use-unintialized-memory.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 884f646..0000000
--- a/desktop-file-utils-0.10-dont-use-unintialized-memory.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- desktop-file-utils-0.10/src/update-desktop-database.c.dont-use-uninitialized-memory	2006-01-22 15:53:08.000000000 -0500
-+++ desktop-file-utils-0.10/src/update-desktop-database.c	2006-01-22 15:53:17.000000000 -0500
-@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@
- 
-   for (i = 0; data_dirs[i] != NULL; i++);
- 
--  args = g_new (char *, i + 1);
-+  args = g_new0 (char *, i + 1);
- 
-   for (i = 0; data_dirs[i] != NULL; i++)
-     args[i] = g_build_filename (data_dirs[i], "applications", NULL);
diff --git a/desktop-file-utils-0.11-make-category-validation-non-fatal.patch b/desktop-file-utils-0.11-make-category-validation-non-fatal.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ac6be31..0000000
--- a/desktop-file-utils-0.11-make-category-validation-non-fatal.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- desktop-file-utils-0.11/src/validate.c.make-category-validation-non-fatal	2006-04-18 18:03:13.000000000 -0400
-+++ desktop-file-utils-0.11/src/validate.c	2006-10-27 14:33:53.000000000 -0400
-@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
- 	    {
- 	      if (strcmp (vals[i], categories_keys[j]) != 0)
- 		{
--		  print_fatal (filename, "%s values are case sensitive (should be \"%s\" instead of \"%s\")\n",
-+		  print_warning (filename, "%s values are case sensitive (should be \"%s\" instead of \"%s\")\n",
- 			       key, categories_keys[j], vals[i]);
- 		}
- 	      break;
-@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
- 	  char *valid_categories;
- 
- 	  valid_categories = g_strjoinv ("\", \"", (gchar **) categories_keys);
--	  print_fatal (filename, "%s values must be one of \"%s\" (found \"%s\")\n",
-+	  print_warning (filename, "%s values must be one of \"%s\" (found \"%s\")\n",
- 		       key, valid_categories, vals[i]);
- 	  g_free (valid_categories);
- 	}
diff --git a/desktop-file-utils-0.12-make-vendor-optional.patch b/desktop-file-utils-0.12-make-vendor-optional.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ed9b93..0000000
--- a/desktop-file-utils-0.12-make-vendor-optional.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- desktop-file-utils-0.12/src/install.c   18 Apr 2006 22:08:10 -0000      1.18
-+++ desktop-file-utils-0.12/src/install.c   2 Feb 2007 19:43:27 -0000
-@@ -96,12 +96,10 @@ process_one_file (const char *filename,
-   GError *rebuild_error;
-   GSList *tmp;
-   
--  g_assert (vendor_name);
--
-   dirname = g_path_get_dirname (filename);
-   basename = g_path_get_basename (filename);
-   
--  if (!g_str_has_prefix (basename, vendor_name))
-+  if (vendor_name && !g_str_has_prefix (basename, vendor_name))
-     {
-       char *new_base;
-       new_base = g_strconcat (vendor_name, "-", basename, NULL);
-@@ -564,12 +562,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
-   if (vendor_name == NULL)
-     vendor_name = g_strdup (g_getenv ("DESKTOP_FILE_VENDOR"));
-   
--  if (vendor_name == NULL)
--    {
--      g_printerr (_("Must specify the vendor namespace for these files with --vendor\n"));
--      return 1;
--    }
--
-   if (copy_generic_name_to_name && copy_name_to_generic_name)
-     {
-       g_printerr (_("Specifying both --copy-name-to-generic-name and --copy-generic-name-to-name at once doesn't make much sense.\n"));
-
-
diff --git a/desktop-file-utils-0.9-nogroup.patch b/desktop-file-utils-0.9-nogroup.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dc0b561..0000000
--- a/desktop-file-utils-0.9-nogroup.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- desktop-file-utils-0.9/src/eggdesktopentries.c.nogroup	2004-10-18 14:10:48.527841168 +0200
-+++ desktop-file-utils-0.9/src/eggdesktopentries.c	2004-10-18 14:19:33.102093760 +0200
-@@ -884,6 +884,15 @@
-   gchar *key, *value, *key_end, *value_start, *locale;
-   gsize key_len, value_len;
- 
-+  if (entries->current_group->name == NULL)
-+    {
-+      g_set_error (error, EGG_DESKTOP_ENTRIES_ERROR,
-+		   EGG_DESKTOP_ENTRIES_ERROR_BAD_START_GROUP,
-+		   _("desktop entry file does not start with "
-+		     "legal start group"));
-+      return;
-+    }
-+
-   key_end = value_start = strchr (line, '=');
- 
-   g_assert (key_end != NULL);