diff --git a/00178-dont-duplicate-flags-in-sysconfig.patch b/00178-dont-duplicate-flags-in-sysconfig.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fc49b30..0000000
--- a/00178-dont-duplicate-flags-in-sysconfig.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-diff -r 39b9b05c3085 Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
---- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py	Wed Apr 10 00:27:23 2013 +0200
-+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py	Wed Apr 10 10:14:18 2013 +0200
-@@ -362,7 +362,10 @@
-                     done[n] = item = ""
-                 if found:
-                     after = value[m.end():]
--                    value = value[:m.start()] + item + after
-+                    value = value[:m.start()]
-+                    if item.strip() not in value:
-+                        value += item
-+                    value += after
-                     if "$" in after:
-                         notdone[name] = value
-                     else:
-diff -r 39b9b05c3085 Lib/sysconfig.py
---- a/Lib/sysconfig.py	Wed Apr 10 00:27:23 2013 +0200
-+++ b/Lib/sysconfig.py	Wed Apr 10 10:14:18 2013 +0200
-@@ -296,7 +296,10 @@
- 
-                 if found:
-                     after = value[m.end():]
--                    value = value[:m.start()] + item + after
-+                    value = value[:m.start()]
-+                    if item.strip() not in value:
-+                        value += item
-+                    value += after
-                     if "$" in after:
-                         notdone[name] = value
-                     else:
diff --git a/python3.spec b/python3.spec
index 61850c4..ff93a0c 100644
--- a/python3.spec
+++ b/python3.spec
@@ -252,12 +252,6 @@ Patch155: 00155-avoid-ctypes-thunks.patch
 # See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614680
 Patch170: 00170-gc-assertions.patch
 
-# 00178 #
-# Don't duplicate various FLAGS in sysconfig values
-# http://bugs.python.org/issue17679
-# Does not affect python2 AFAICS (different sysconfig values initialization)
-Patch178: 00178-dont-duplicate-flags-in-sysconfig.patch
-
 # 00189 #
 # Instead of bundled wheels, use our RPM packaged wheels from
 # /usr/share/python-wheels
@@ -619,7 +613,6 @@ rm -r Modules/expat
 %patch111 -p1
 %patch155 -p1
 %patch170 -p1
-%patch178 -p1
 
 %if %{with rpmwheels}
 %patch189 -p1