diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/default.nix
index e4e31db94a6b..08b2757dd6e8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [
     # Do not build the changelog as this requires markdown.
-    ./geeqie-no-changelog.patch
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "geeqie-1.4-goodbye-changelog.patch";
+      url = "https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/geeqie/raw/132fb04a1a5e74ddb333d2474f7edb9a39dc8d27/f/geeqie-1.4-goodbye-changelog.patch";
+      sha256 = "00a35dds44kjjdqsbbfk0x9y82jspvsbpm2makcm1ivzlhjjgszn";
+    })
     # Fixes build with exiv2 0.27.1
     (fetchpatch {
       name = "geeqie-exiv2-0.27.patch";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/geeqie-no-changelog.patch b/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/geeqie-no-changelog.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b8833b135f3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/geeqie/geeqie-no-changelog.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- geeqie-1.4.orig/Makefile.am	2017-12-31 07:31:21.000000000 -0500
-+++ geeqie-1.4/Makefile.am	2018-01-01 15:05:58.742068166 -0500
-@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
- readmedir = @readmedir@
- 
- if HAVE_MARKDOWN
--readme_DATA = README.md COPYING ChangeLog TODO README.lirc AUTHORS README.html ChangeLog.html
-+readme_DATA = README.md COPYING TODO README.lirc AUTHORS README.html
- else
--readme_DATA = README.md COPYING ChangeLog TODO README.lirc AUTHORS ChangeLog.html
-+readme_DATA = README.md COPYING TODO README.lirc AUTHORS
- endif
- 
- desktopdir = $(datadir)/applications