diff --git a/0001-Remove-hatch-vcs.patch b/0001-Remove-hatch-vcs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b19349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Remove-hatch-vcs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 20ea9c6ff9c334d76466f10cb97c93eb4b91672b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Budai?= <ondrej@budai.cz>
+Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:48:46 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove hatch-vcs
+
+It apparently has no effect on the built RPM (I checked manually),
+so let's drop it from pyproject.toml, so we can remove it from RHEL.
+---
+ pyproject.toml | 6 ++----
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index c0044e7..91d5035 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
++requires = ["hatchling"]
+ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+ 
+-[tool.hatch.version]
+-source = "vcs"
+-
+ [project]
+ name = "referencing"
++version = "0.31.1"
+ description = "JSON Referencing + Python"
+ readme = "README.rst"
+ license = {text = "MIT"}
+-- 
+2.45.2
+
diff --git a/python-referencing.spec b/python-referencing.spec
index 1e0c82e..156fd46 100644
--- a/python-referencing.spec
+++ b/python-referencing.spec
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Summary:        An implementation-agnostic implementation of JSON reference reso
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://pypi.python.org/pypi/%{srcname}
 Source:         %{pypi_source referencing}
+Patch0:         0001-Remove-hatch-vcs.patch
 
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