diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index f6094f88893a70e9be9f624a46f55caf75c53d27..6a21e22e7bc95e65d68d4391431ae982dad10b32 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.a
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-%{version}/*
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-python-%{version}/*
-(cd doc/examples ; make clean ; rm -rf .deps Makefile)
+(cd doc/examples ; make clean ; rm -rf *)
 gzip -9 -c doc/libxml2-api.xml > doc/libxml2-api.xml.gz
 
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