diff --git a/perl-Sys-Syslog.spec b/perl-Sys-Syslog.spec
index 39d1cd8..c038b7e 100644
--- a/perl-Sys-Syslog.spec
+++ b/perl-Sys-Syslog.spec
@@ -21,16 +21,15 @@ BuildRequires:  findutils
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  glibc-common
 BuildRequires:  make
-BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter
 BuildRequires:  perl-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl-generators
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter
 BuildRequires:  perl(Config)
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::Constant)
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) >= 6.76
 BuildRequires:  perl(File::Copy)
 BuildRequires:  perl(File::Spec)
 BuildRequires:  perl(strict)
-BuildRequires:  sed
 # Run-time:
 BuildRequires:  perl(Carp)
 BuildRequires:  perl(constant)
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ a string priority and a list of printf() arguments just like at syslog(3).
 chmod -x eg/*
 # Inhibit bundled syslog.h
 rm -rf fallback
-sed -i -e '/^fallback\//d' MANIFEST
+perl -i -ne 'print $_ unless m{^fallback/}' MANIFEST
 # Recode files
 for F in Changes; do
     iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 < "$F" >"${F}.utf8"