diff --git a/libgda.spec b/libgda.spec
index ad279c7..bf1c73a 100644
--- a/libgda.spec
+++ b/libgda.spec
@@ -248,51 +248,6 @@ make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
 find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 rm %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}-%{apiver}/sales_test.db
 
-# Register as an application to be visible in the software center
-#
-# NOTE: It would be *awesome* if this file was maintained by the upstream
-# project, translated and installed into the right place during `make install`.
-#
-# See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/ for more details.
-#
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/appdata
-cat > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/appdata/gda-browser-5.0.appdata.xml <<EOF
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- Copyright 2014 Ryan Lerch <rlerch@redhat.com> -->
-<!--
-BugReportURL: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730813
-SentUpstream: 2014-09-17
--->
-<application>
-  <id type="desktop">gda-browser-5.0.desktop</id>
-  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
-  <summary>View the schema and data of databases</summary>
-  <description>
-    <p>
-      Database Browser provides quick access to the data and schema of a database,
-      and displays it in a intuitive graphical interface.
-      It provides three perspectives to interact with a database: the schema browser,
-      query execution, and data manager.
-      The schema browser allows the user to view the tables of a database, and
-      inspect the table's properties and relations.
-      The query exeution perspective allows the user to execute SQL queries on
-      the database.
-      The data manager perspective allows the user to view the data contained in
-      the database in a tabular form.
-    </p>
-  </description>
-  <url type="homepage">http://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser</url>
-  <screenshots>
-    <screenshot type="default">http://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=GdaBrowser-tablerels.png</screenshot>
-    <screenshot>http://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=GdaBrowser-query1.png</screenshot>
-    <screenshot>http://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=dataman-persp.png</screenshot>
-  </screenshots>
-  <!-- FIXME: change this to an upstream email address for spec updates
-  <updatecontact>someone_who_cares@upstream_project.org</updatecontact>
-   -->
-</application>
-EOF
-
 %find_lang libgda-5.0
 %find_lang gda-browser --with-gnome
 
@@ -438,6 +393,7 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
 * Mon Dec 03 2018 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 5.2.8-1
 - Update to 5.2.8
 - Move libgda-ui-plugins to correct subpackage
+- Drop appdata override as the appdata file is now upstream
 
 * Sun Sep 16 2018 Haïkel Guémar <hguemar@fedoraproject.org> - 1:5.2.4-1
 - Upstream 5.2.4