diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a676c0b72..bb5b97a35 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ provided in `scripts/rpc.py` for consistency.
 An new optional parameter `config_kernel_mode` was added to the RPC `idxd_scan_accel_engine`,
 and this is used to enable using the kernel mode IDXD driver.
 
+### rpm
+
+Removed deprecated `pkg/spdk.spec`, please use `rpmbuild/spdk.spec` instead.
+See [RPM documentation](https://spdk.io/doc/rpm.html) for more details.
+
 ### thread
 
 Red-black tree has been used for timed pollers to provide faster insertion and deletion
diff --git a/deprecation.md b/deprecation.md
index 1bd345a7b..b92db8b97 100644
--- a/deprecation.md
+++ b/deprecation.md
@@ -30,9 +30,3 @@ Parameter `enable-zerocopy-send` of RPC `sock_impl_set_options` is deprecated an
 use `enable-zerocopy-send-server` or `enable-zerocopy-send-client` instead.
 Parameter `disable-zerocopy-send` of RPC `sock_impl_set_options` is deprecated and will be removed in SPDK 21.07,
 use `disable-zerocopy-send-server` or `disable-zerocopy-send-client` instead.
-
-## rpm
-
-`pkg/spdk.spec` is considered to be deprecated and scheduled for removal in SPDK 21.07.
-Please use `rpmbuild/spdk.spec` instead and see
-[RPM documentation](https://spdk.io/doc/rpm.html) for more details.
diff --git a/pkg/README b/pkg/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 58ee61534..000000000
--- a/pkg/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-pkg/spdk.spec is deprecated and not fully supported. Use of the
-rpmbuild/spdk.spec together with provided script suite is advised.
-The pkg/spdk.spec is going to be removed from future releases.
diff --git a/pkg/spdk.spec b/pkg/spdk.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index c6861081d..000000000
--- a/pkg/spdk.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
-# Build documentation package
-%bcond_with doc
-
-Name: spdk
-Version: master
-Release: 0%{?dist}
-Epoch: 0
-URL: http://spdk.io
-
-Source: https://github.com/spdk/spdk/archive/master.tar.gz
-Summary: Set of libraries and utilities for high performance user-mode storage
-
-%define package_version %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
-
-%define install_datadir %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/%{name}
-%define install_sbindir %{buildroot}/%{_sbindir}
-%define install_docdir %{buildroot}/%{_docdir}/%{name}
-
-License: BSD
-
-# Only x86_64 is supported
-ExclusiveArch: x86_64
-
-BuildRequires: gcc gcc-c++ make
-BuildRequires: dpdk-devel, numactl-devel, ncurses-devel
-BuildRequires: libiscsi-devel, libaio-devel, openssl-devel, libuuid-devel
-BuildRequires: libibverbs-devel, librdmacm-devel
-%if %{with doc}
-BuildRequires: doxygen mscgen graphviz
-%endif
-
-# Install dependencies
-Requires: dpdk >= 19.11, numactl-libs, openssl-libs
-Requires: libiscsi, libaio, libuuid
-Requires: python3-configshell, python3-pexpect
-# NVMe over Fabrics
-Requires: librdmacm, librdmacm
-Requires(post): /sbin/ldconfig
-Requires(postun): /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%description
-The Storage Performance Development Kit provides a set of tools
-and libraries for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage
-applications.
-
-
-%package devel
-Summary: Storage Performance Development Kit development files
-Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{package_version}
-Provides: %{name}-static%{?_isa} = %{package_version}
-
-%description devel
-This package contains the headers and other files needed for
-developing applications with the Storage Performance Development Kit.
-
-
-%package tools
-Summary: Storage Performance Development Kit tools files
-Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{package_version} python3 python3-configshell python3-pexpect
-BuildArch: noarch
-
-%description tools
-%{summary}
-
-
-%if %{with doc}
-%package doc
-Summary: Storage Performance Development Kit documentation
-BuildArch: noarch
-
-%description doc
-%{summary}
-%endif
-
-
-%prep
-cat <<-WARNING
-	WARNING: This RPM spec is considered to be deprecated and scheduled for removal.
-	Using rpmbuild/spdk.spec and accompanying tooling is advised.
-WARNING
-# add -q
-%autosetup -n spdk-%{version}
-
-
-%build
-./configure --prefix=%{_usr} \
-	--disable-tests \
-	--disable-unit-tests \
-	--without-crypto \
-	--with-dpdk=/usr/share/dpdk/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc \
-	--without-fio \
-	--with-vhost \
-	--without-pmdk \
-	--without-rbd \
-	--with-rdma \
-	--with-shared \
-	--with-iscsi-initiator \
-	--without-vtune
-
-make -j`nproc` all
-
-%if %{with doc}
-make -C doc
-%endif
-
-%install
-%make_install -j`nproc` prefix=%{_usr} libdir=%{_libdir} datadir=%{_datadir}
-
-# Install tools
-mkdir -p %{install_datadir}
-find scripts -type f -regextype egrep -regex '.*(spdkcli|rpc).*[.]py' \
-	-exec cp --parents -t %{install_datadir} {} ";"
-
-# env is banned - replace '/usr/bin/env anything' with '/usr/bin/anything'
-find %{install_datadir}/scripts -type f -regextype egrep -regex '.*([.]py|[.]sh)' \
-	-exec sed -i -E '1s@#!/usr/bin/env (.*)@#!/usr/bin/\1@' {} +
-
-# symlinks to tools
-mkdir -p %{install_sbindir}
-ln -sf -r %{install_datadir}/scripts/rpc.py %{install_sbindir}/%{name}-rpc
-ln -sf -r %{install_datadir}/scripts/spdkcli.py %{install_sbindir}/%{name}-cli
-
-%if %{with doc}
-# Install doc
-mkdir -p %{install_docdir}
-mv doc/output/html/ %{install_docdir}
-%endif
-
-
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-
-%files
-%{_bindir}/spdk_*
-%{_libdir}/*.so.*
-
-
-%files devel
-%{_includedir}/%{name}
-%{_libdir}/*.a
-%{_libdir}/*.so
-
-
-%files tools
-%{_datadir}/%{name}/scripts
-%{_sbindir}/%{name}-rpc
-%{_sbindir}/%{name}-cli
-
-%if %{with doc}
-%files doc
-%{_docdir}/%{name}
-%endif
-
-
-%changelog
-* Tue Sep 18 2018 Pawel Wodkowski <pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com> - 0:18.07-3
-- Initial RPM release