diff --git a/news/cnews/files/patch-mkinperm.c b/news/cnews/files/patch-mkinperm.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 4637398fce2c..000000000000
--- a/news/cnews/files/patch-mkinperm.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- libcnews/mkinperm.c.orig	2020-05-02 08:20:33 UTC
-+++ libcnews/mkinperm.c
-@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
- #endif
- 
- int mkinpdebug = 0;
--const char *progname;
-+extern const char *progname;
- 
- int						/* true iff succeeded */
- mkinperm(tmpname, grade, class)