diff --git a/mercurial.spec b/mercurial.spec
index a3f6f00..7dc9b15 100644
--- a/mercurial.spec
+++ b/mercurial.spec
@@ -123,9 +123,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{python_sitearch}/mercurial/locale
 
 grep -v locale %{name}-base.files > %{name}-base-filtered.files
 
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
 %files -f %{name}-base-filtered.files -f hg.lang
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc CONTRIBUTORS COPYING doc/README doc/hg*.txt doc/hg*.html *.cgi contrib/*.fcgi contrib/*.wsgi