diff --git a/man-pages.spec b/man-pages.spec
index 60c93fd..4899ab6 100644
--- a/man-pages.spec
+++ b/man-pages.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Summary: Linux kernel and C library user-space interface documentation
 Name: man-pages
 Version: 4.16
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: GPL+ and GPLv2+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
 Group: Documentation
 URL: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ A large collection of manual pages from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
 # we do not have sccs (#203302)
 %{__rm} %{posix_name}/man1p/{admin,delta,get,prs,rmdel,sact,sccs,unget,val,what}.1p
 
+# remove man pages deprecated by libxcrypt (#1610307)
+%{__rm} man3/crypt{,_r}.3
+
 %build
 # nothing to build
 
@@ -83,6 +86,10 @@ popd
 %{_mandir}/man*/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 03 2018 Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com> - 4.16-3
+- remove man pages deprecated by libxcrypt
+  resolves #1610307
+
 * Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 4.16-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild