diff --git a/shells/bash/readline.patch b/shells/bash/readline.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dab5687c..000000000
--- a/shells/bash/readline.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../bash/readline.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
-#
-# 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 ---
-
-Fix for the --disable-readline option. Imported from ROCK Linux.
-
-  - Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
-
---- bash-3.0/Makefile.in	2004-08-25 22:53:21.000000000 +0200
-+++ bash-3.0/Makefile.in.patch	2004-08-25 22:51:33.000000000 +0200
-@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
- 
- $(Program):  .build $(OBJECTS) $(BUILTINS_DEP) $(LIBDEP)
- 	$(RM) $@
--	$(PURIFY) $(CC) $(BUILTINS_LDFLAGS) $(LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(Program) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS)
-+	$(PURIFY) $(CC) $(BUILTINS_LDFLAGS) $(LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(Program) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) $(READLINE_LIBRARY)
- 	ls -l $(Program)
- 
- .build:	$(SOURCES) config.h Makefile version.h $(VERSPROG)