diff --git a/luaposix-lua-5.2.patch b/luaposix-lua-5.2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a15b061..0000000
--- a/luaposix-lua-5.2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-diff -up luaposix-8f8058293efd9654e5fc7f7627a04f4db2b56f8f/posix.lua.lua-52 luaposix-8f8058293efd9654e5fc7f7627a04f4db2b56f8f/posix.lua
---- luaposix-8f8058293efd9654e5fc7f7627a04f4db2b56f8f/posix.lua.lua-52	2013-05-12 21:37:05.201524376 -0400
-+++ luaposix-8f8058293efd9654e5fc7f7627a04f4db2b56f8f/posix.lua	2013-05-12 21:43:12.845548551 -0400
-@@ -4,6 +4,27 @@ local posix = M
- local bit
- if _VERSION == "Lua 5.1" then bit = require "bit" else bit = require "bit32" end
- 
-+-- Code extracted from lua-stdlib with minimal modifications
-+local list = {
-+  sub = function (l, from, to)
-+    local r = {}
-+    local len = #l
-+    from = from or 1
-+    to = to or len
-+    if from < 0 then
-+      from = from + len + 1
-+    end
-+    if to < 0 then
-+      to = to + len + 1
-+    end
-+    for i = from, to do
-+      table.insert (r, l[i])
-+    end
-+    return r
-+  end
-+}
-+-- end of stdlib code 
-+
- --- Create a file.
- -- @param file name of file to create
- -- @param mode permissions with which to create file
-@@ -30,7 +51,7 @@ function M.spawn (task, ...)
-       task = {"/bin/sh", "-c", task, ...}
-     end
-     if type (task) == "table" then
--      posix.execp (unpack (task))
-+      posix.execp (table.unpack (task))
-       -- Only get here if there's an error; kill the fork
-       local _, no = posix.errno ()
-       posix._exit (no)