diff --git a/docs/source/news.rst b/docs/source/news.rst
index 801aa74b..7e72a4e5 100644
--- a/docs/source/news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/news.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Unreleased
+==========
+
+- remove support for the `bdist_rpm` build
+
 20.0.2 / 2019/11/23
 ===================
 
diff --git a/rpm/install b/rpm/install
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a8f9dc7..00000000
--- a/rpm/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-%{__python} setup.py install --skip-build --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-# Build the HTML documentation using the default theme.
-%{__python} setup.py build_sphinx
-
-%if ! (0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 5)
-%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
-%{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
-%endif
-
-INSTALLED_FILES="\
-%{python_sitelib}/*
-%{_bindir}/*
-%doc LICENSE NOTICE README.rst THANKS build/sphinx/html examples/example_config.py
-"
-echo "$INSTALLED_FILES" > INSTALLED_FILES
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 20017519..64d0abc0 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-[bdist_rpm]
-build-requires = python2-devel python-setuptools python-sphinx
-requires = python-setuptools >= 0.6c6 python-ctypes
-install_script = rpm/install
-group = System Environment/Daemons
-
 [tool:pytest]
 norecursedirs = examples lib local src
 testpaths = tests/