diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index 4d21a8b..6a5578b 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ echo %{emacs_libexecdir}/${nw_pdmp} >> nw-eln-filelist
 %endif
 
 # remove leading . from filelists
-sed -i -e "s|\.%{native_lisp}|%{native_lisp}|" *-eln-filelist *-dirs
+#sed -i -e "s|\.%{native_lisp}|%{native_lisp}|" *-eln-filelist *-dirs
 
 # remove exec permissions from eln files to prevent the debuginfo extractor from
 # trying to extract debuginfo from them