diff --git a/macros.mingw32 b/macros.mingw32
index 924804b..a3662ca 100644
--- a/macros.mingw32
+++ b/macros.mingw32
@@ -167,79 +167,3 @@ package or when debugging this package.                                  \
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)                                                  \
 %{nil}
 
-
-# Maintain backwards compatibility with the original MinGW packaging guidelines
-# These can be dropped as soon as all packages are ported to the new packaging guidelines
-%_mingw32_pkg_name             %{mingw32_pkg_name}
-%_mingw32_target               %{mingw32_target}
-%_mingw32_sysroot              %{mingw32_sysroot}
-%_mingw32_prefix               %{mingw32_prefix}
-%_mingw32_exec_prefix          %{mingw32_exec_prefix}
-%_mingw32_bindir               %{mingw32_bindir}
-%_mingw32_sbindir              %{mingw32_sbindir}
-%_mingw32_libexecdir           %{mingw32_libexecdir}
-%_mingw32_libdir               %{mingw32_libdir}
-%_mingw32_datadir              %{mingw32_datadir}
-%_mingw32_docdir               %{mingw32_docdir}
-%_mingw32_infodir              %{mingw32_infodir}
-%_mingw32_mandir               %{mingw32_mandir}
-%_mingw32_sysconfdir           %{mingw32_sysconfdir}
-%_mingw32_sharedstatedir       %{mingw32_sharedstatedir}
-%_mingw32_localstatedir        %{mingw32_localstatedir}
-%_mingw32_includedir           %{mingw32_includedir}
-%_mingw32_host                 %{mingw32_host}
-%_mingw32_cflags               %{mingw32_cflags}
-%_mingw32_cppflags             %{mingw32_cppflags}
-%_mingw32_ldflags              %{mingw32_ldflags}
-%_mingw32_findprovides         %{mingw_findprovides}
-%_mingw32_findrequires         %{mingw_findrequires}
-%_mingw32_cc                   %{mingw32_cc}
-%_mingw32_cxx                  %{mingw32_cxx}
-%_mingw32_cpp                  %{mingw32_cpp}
-%_mingw32_addr2line            %{mingw32_addr2line}
-%_mingw32_ar                   %{mingw32_ar}
-%_mingw32_as                   %{mingw32_as}
-%_mingw32_dlltool              %{mingw32_dlltool}
-%_mingw32_dllwrap              %{mingw32_dllwrap}
-%_mingw32_gcov                 %{mingw32_gcov}
-%_mingw32_gprof                %{mingw32_gprof}
-%_mingw32_ld                   %{mingw32_ld}
-%_mingw32_nm                   %{mingw32_nm}
-%_mingw32_objcopy              %{mingw32_objcopy}
-%_mingw32_objdump              %{mingw32_objdump}
-%_mingw32_ranlib               %{mingw32_ranlib}
-%_mingw32_readelf              %{mingw32_readelf}
-%_mingw32_size                 %{mingw32_size}
-%_mingw32_strings              %{mingw32_strings}
-%_mingw32_strip                %{mingw32_strip}
-%_mingw32_windmc               %{mingw32_windmc}
-%_mingw32_windres              %{mingw32_windres}
-%_mingw32_env                  %{mingw32_env}
-%_mingw32_pkg_config           %{mingw32_pkg_config}
-%_mingw32_configure            %{mingw32_configure}
-%_mingw32_make                 %{mingw32_make}
-%_mingw32_cmake                %{mingw32_cmake}
-%_mingw32_description          %{mingw32_description}
-%_mingw32_debug_package        %{mingw32_debug_package}
-%_mingw32_debug_install_post   %{mingw_debug_install_post}
-%mingw32_debug_install_post    %{mingw_debug_install_post}
-
-
-# This macro has been dropped from the new guidelines, keep
-# it here around for backwards compatibility
-%_mingw32_makeinstall %{mingw32_env} ; \
-  make \\\
-	prefix=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_prefix} \\\
-	exec_prefix=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_exec_prefix} \\\
-	bindir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_bindir} \\\
-	sbindir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_sbindir} \\\
-	sysconfdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_sysconfdir} \\\
-	datadir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_datadir} \\\
-	includedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_includedir} \\\
-	libdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_libdir} \\\
-	libexecdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_libexecdir} \\\
-	localstatedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_localstatedir} \\\
-	sharedstatedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_sharedstatedir} \\\
-	mandir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_mandir} \\\
-	infodir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{mingw32_infodir} \\\
-  install
diff --git a/mingw-filesystem.spec b/mingw-filesystem.spec
index 4f78c33..769f977 100644
--- a/mingw-filesystem.spec
+++ b/mingw-filesystem.spec
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ install -m 0644 %{SOURCE12} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/mingw/
     as it breaks CPack and isn't needed by any of the
     Fedora MinGW packages (RHBZ #1152696)
 - Accept empty MINGW{32,64}_{C,CPP,CXX}FLAGS environment variables
+- Removed old _mingw32 macros which have been deprecated since Fedora 17
 
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org>
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild