diff --git a/mariadb.spec b/mariadb.spec
index 2b5e373..fca55e3 100644
--- a/mariadb.spec
+++ b/mariadb.spec
@@ -736,6 +736,14 @@ sources.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{pkg_name}-%{version}
 
+# Remove bundled code that is unused (all cases in which we use the system version of the library instead)
+# as required by https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#bundling
+rm -r zlib libmariadb/external/zlib
+rm -r win libmariadb/win
+rm -r extra/wolfssl
+rm -r storage/columnstore
+rm -r debian
+
 # Remove JAR files that upstream puts into tarball
 find . -name "*.jar" -type f -exec rm --verbose -f {} \;
 # Remove testsuite for the mariadb-connector-c