diff --git a/hyphen.spec b/hyphen.spec
index ed839d9..c5db9ea 100644
--- a/hyphen.spec
+++ b/hyphen.spec
@@ -66,17 +66,14 @@ popd
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc AUTHORS ChangeLog README README.hyphen README.nonstandard TODO
 %{_libdir}/*.so.*
 %dir %{_datadir}/hyphen
 
 %files en
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %{_datadir}/hyphen/hyph_en*.dic
 
 %files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %{_includedir}/hyphen.h
 %{_libdir}/*.so
 %{_bindir}/substrings.pl