diff --git a/gnome2/dia/configure-fix.patch b/gnome2/dia/configure-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6169c5dec..000000000
--- a/gnome2/dia/configure-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../dia/configure-fix.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
---- dia-0.94/configure.orig	2004-12-31 20:24:48.750816816 +0100
-+++ dia-0.94/configure	2004-12-31 20:25:19.817094024 +0100
-@@ -22377,7 +22377,7 @@
- #define HAVE_LIBPNG 1
- _ACEOF
- 
--  LIBS="-lpng $LIBS"
-+  LIBS="-lpng -lz -lm $LIBS"
- 
- else
-   png_ok=no
-@@ -22387,7 +22387,7 @@
-   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for png_structp in png.h" >&5
- echo $ECHO_N "checking for png_structp in png.h... $ECHO_C" >&6
-     old_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
--  LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -lz -lm"
-+  LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
-   cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
- #include <png.h>
-                   png_structp pp;
diff --git a/gnome2/dia/dia.desc b/gnome2/dia/dia.desc
index 9893137b3..557d5a07f 100644
--- a/gnome2/dia/dia.desc
+++ b/gnome2/dia/dia.desc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../dia/dia.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 - 2011 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.96.1
+[V] 0.97.1
 [P] X -----5---9 173.500
 
 [O] . $base/package/*/*/gnome2-conf.in
 
-[D] 3694829489 dia-0.96.1.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/dia/0.96/
+[D] 2181170673 dia-0.97.1.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/dia/0.97/
 
diff --git a/gnome2/dia/skipdoc.patch b/gnome2/dia/skipdoc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b3e217b5e..000000000
--- a/gnome2/dia/skipdoc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../dia/skipdoc.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-
-Creating manpages leads to using external resouces. This results in an error.
-So for the time being let's skip creating manpages (doc).
-
---- dia-0.96.1/Makefile.in.original	2007-06-27 09:55:31.000000000 +0200
-+++ dia-0.96.1/Makefile.in	2007-06-27 09:56:06.000000000 +0200
-@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
- sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
- target_alias = @target_alias@
- uidatadir = @uidatadir@
--SUBDIRS = lib objects plug-ins shapes app samples po sheets data doc tests
-+SUBDIRS = lib objects plug-ins shapes app samples po sheets data tests
- gnomedatadir = $(datadir)
- pkgdata_DATA = dia_logo.png
- pixmapdir = $(gnomedatadir)/pixmaps