diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 612ee2a6453..e255fef533a 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -719,7 +719,6 @@ Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/CGAL_manual_tools-config.patch -text
 Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/CGAL_manual_tools-latex_to_html.patch -text
 Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/CGAL_manual_tools-perl.patch -text
 Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/CGAL_manual_tools-rpm.patch -text
-Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/test_ZLIB.C.patch -text
 Maintenance/rpm/SPECS/CGAL-manual-tools.spec -text
 Maintenance/rpm/SPECS/CGAL.spec -text
 Maintenance/rpm/get_cgal_trunk_url -text
diff --git a/Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/test_ZLIB.C.patch b/Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/test_ZLIB.C.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 321b61a99e2..00000000000
--- a/Maintenance/rpm/SOURCES/test_ZLIB.C.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- config/support/test_ZLIB.C~	2006-04-10 21:03:32.000000000 +0200
-+++ config/support/test_ZLIB.C	2006-04-11 17:41:26.000000000 +0200
-@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@
- 
- int main()
- {
--  gzFile file;
--  gzwrite(file, (void*)0, 0); 
--
--  std::cout << "version=" << ZLIB_VERSION << std::endl;
-+  std::cout << "version=" << zlibVersion() << std::endl;
-   return 0;
- }