diff --git a/nano.spec b/nano.spec
index 4065a84..062477d 100644
--- a/nano.spec
+++ b/nano.spec
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ sed -e 's/# set nowrap/set nowrap/' \
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}
 install -m 644 ./nanorc %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/nanorc
 
+# remove installed HTML documentation
+rm -rf "%{buildroot}%{_docdir}"/nano/{fr,{nano.1,nanorc.5,rnano.1}.html}
+
 %find_lang %{name}
 
 %post
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ exit 0
 %changelog
 * Mon Oct 12 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.4.2-2
 - enable syntax highlighting by default (#1270712)
+- remove installed HTML documentation (to prevent a build failure in rawhide)
 
 * Tue Jul 07 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.4.2-1
 - new upstream release