diff --git a/package/rene/aspell/aspell.desc b/package/rene/aspell/aspell.desc
index 66de938d7..b50ef7b74 100644
--- a/package/rene/aspell/aspell.desc
+++ b/package/rene/aspell/aspell.desc
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.50.5
+[V] 0.60
 [P] X -?---5---9 121.000
 
-[D] 4241437923 aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/
+[D] 3897358014 aspell-0.60.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/
 
diff --git a/package/rene/aspell/gcc33-support.patch b/package/rene/aspell/gcc33-support.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 08e7ab2b4..000000000
--- a/package/rene/aspell/gcc33-support.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/rene/aspell/gcc33-support.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# 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.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- aspell-0.50.3/prog/checker_string.cpp.orig	2003-08-13 16:45:30.000000000 +0200
-+++ aspell-0.50.3/prog/checker_string.cpp	2003-08-13 16:53:13.000000000 +0200
-@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
- #include "document_checker.hpp"
- #include "copy_ptr-t.hpp"
- #include "asc_ctype.hpp"
-+#if __GNUC__ == 3
-+#include <cassert>
-+#endif
- 
- static int get_line(FILE * in, CharVector & d)
- {