diff --git a/spice-gtk.spec b/spice-gtk.spec
index c3cfdd7..ba6bd87 100644
--- a/spice-gtk.spec
+++ b/spice-gtk.spec
@@ -181,6 +181,13 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.a
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.a
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
+
+# needed because of the upstream issue described in
+# http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-August/010343.html
+# these are unwanted spice-protocol files
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/spice-1
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/pkgconfig/spice-protocol.pc
+
 %find_lang %{name}