diff --git a/pygobject3.spec b/pygobject3.spec
index 5d038d5..c73d98a 100644
--- a/pygobject3.spec
+++ b/pygobject3.spec
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ popd
 
 %make_install
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.la' -delete
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.a' -delete
 
 # Don't include makefiles in the installed docs, in order to avoid creating
 # multilib conflicts