diff --git a/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch b/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 03221be..0000000
--- a/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-commit 9f4200d6d81924a1b0368af034a1ff48728543f6
-Author: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
-Date:   Wed Dec 10 23:09:38 2014 -0500
-
-    configure: add a verbose mode
-    
-    Required for Fedora infrastructure so that the commands used to build
-    ninja are logged.
-
-diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
-index aac4ad4..00da22a 100755
---- a/configure.py
-+++ b/configure.py
-@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ class Bootstrap:
-     It also proxies all calls to an underlying ninja_syntax.Writer, to
-     behave like non-bootstrap mode.
-     """
--    def __init__(self, writer):
-+    def __init__(self, writer, verbose=False):
-         self.writer = writer
-+        self.verbose = verbose
-         # Map of variable name => expanded variable value.
-         self.vars = {}
-         # Map of rule name => dict of rule attributes.
-@@ -163,6 +164,8 @@ class Bootstrap:
-     def _run_command(self, cmdline):
-         """Run a subcommand, quietly.  Prints the full command on error."""
-         try:
-+            if self.verbose:
-+                print(cmdline)
-             subprocess.check_call(cmdline, shell=True)
-         except subprocess.CalledProcessError, e:
-             print('when running: ', cmdline)
-@@ -173,6 +176,8 @@ parser = OptionParser()
- profilers = ['gmon', 'pprof']
- parser.add_option('--bootstrap', action='store_true',
-                   help='bootstrap a ninja binary from nothing')
-+parser.add_option('--verbose', action='store_true',
-+                  help='enable verbose build')
- parser.add_option('--platform',
-                   help='target platform (' +
-                        '/'.join(Platform.known_platforms()) + ')',
-@@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ if options.bootstrap:
-     # Wrap ninja_writer with the Bootstrapper, which also executes the
-     # commands.
-     print('bootstrapping ninja...')
--    n = Bootstrap(n)
-+    n = Bootstrap(n, verbose=options.verbose)
- 
- n.comment('This file is used to build ninja itself.')
- n.comment('It is generated by ' + os.path.basename(__file__) + '.')
-@@ -602,6 +607,10 @@ n.build('all', 'phony', all_targets)
- n.close()
- print('wrote %s.' % BUILD_FILENAME)
- 
-+verbose = ''
-+if options.verbose:
-+    verbose = ' -v'
-+
- if options.bootstrap:
-     print('bootstrap complete.  rebuilding...')
-     if platform.is_windows():
-@@ -609,6 +618,6 @@ if options.bootstrap:
-         if os.path.exists(bootstrap_exe):
-             os.unlink(bootstrap_exe)
-         os.rename('ninja.exe', bootstrap_exe)
--        subprocess.check_call('ninja.bootstrap.exe', shell=True)
-+        subprocess.check_call('ninja.bootstrap.exe%s' % verbose, shell=True)
-     else:
--        subprocess.check_call('./ninja', shell=True)
-+        subprocess.check_call('./ninja%s' % verbose, shell=True)
diff --git a/ninja-build.spec b/ninja-build.spec
index f6e18c4..3054306 100644
--- a/ninja-build.spec
+++ b/ninja-build.spec
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ License:        ASL 2.0
 URL:            http://martine.github.com/ninja/
 Source0:        https://github.com/martine/ninja/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/ninja-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        ninja.vim
-# https://github.com/martine/ninja/pull/882
-Patch0:         ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
 BuildRequires:  gtest-devel
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
@@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ fast as possible.
 
 %prep
 %setup -qn ninja-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1 -b .verbose-build
 
 %build
 CFLAGS="%{optflags}" LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}" \