diff --git a/0004-clipboard-do-not-delay-release-if-agent-has-no-relea.patch b/0004-clipboard-do-not-delay-release-if-agent-has-no-relea.patch
index bc49a48..788d9da 100644
--- a/0004-clipboard-do-not-delay-release-if-agent-has-no-relea.patch
+++ b/0004-clipboard-do-not-delay-release-if-agent-has-no-relea.patch
@@ -9,24 +9,10 @@ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
 
 Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
 ---
- meson.build             | 2 +-
  src/channel-main.c      | 2 ++
  src/spice-gtk-session.c | 9 ++++++++-
- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 171a3f6..b89a15b 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ endforeach
- #
- # check for mandatory dependencies
- #
--spice_protocol_version='>= 0.12.15'
-+spice_protocol_version='>= 0.14.1'
- 
- glib_version = '2.46'
- glib_version_info = '>= @0@'.format(glib_version)
 diff --git a/src/channel-main.c b/src/channel-main.c
 index 4305dcd..adf6bab 100644
 --- a/src/channel-main.c
diff --git a/spice-gtk.spec b/spice-gtk.spec
index 8f8ad80..229d57b 100644
--- a/spice-gtk.spec
+++ b/spice-gtk.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Patch0003:      0002-clipboard-do-not-release-between-remote-grabs.patch
 # ???
 Patch0004:      0003-fixup-clipboard-do-not-release-between-remote-grabs.patch
 # https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/58418/#rev1
+# edited to not require protocol version 0.14.1 as we didn't bump
+# the version in spice-protocol when backporting the patches there
 Patch0005:      0004-clipboard-do-not-delay-release-if-agent-has-no-relea.patch
 Patch0006:      0005-clipboard-pre-condition-on-selection-value-256.patch
 Patch0007:      0006-clipboard-implement-CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL.patch