diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/mail-notification/patches/mail-notification-dont-link-against-bsd-compat.patch b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/mail-notification/patches/mail-notification-dont-link-against-bsd-compat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e246a8cc9389..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/mail-notification/patches/mail-notification-dont-link-against-bsd-compat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- jbsrc/jb.c.orig	2014-01-19 20:06:48.525462981 +0100
-+++ jbsrc/jb.c	2014-01-19 20:07:36.087934897 +0100
-@@ -425,7 +425,6 @@
-        */
-       jb_compile_options_add_cflags(object->compile_options, "-std=c99");
-       jb_compile_options_add_cppflags(object->compile_options, "-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L");
--      jb_compile_options_add_libs(object->compile_options, "-lbsd-compat");
-     }
- 
-   jb_compile_options_add_string_defines(object->compile_options,