diff --git a/evince.spec b/evince.spec
index 1ab885e..f800103 100644
--- a/evince.spec
+++ b/evince.spec
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/nautilus/extensions-1.0/*.la
 # don't ship icon caches
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
 
+# we don't have a -devel package, so we don't need backend api docs
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/gtk-doc
+
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT