diff --git a/contrib/fribidi/A02-remove-horrible-hack.patch b/contrib/fribidi/A02-remove-horrible-hack.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 16280a0f4041..000000000000
--- a/contrib/fribidi/A02-remove-horrible-hack.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur fribidi-0.19.7.orig/Makefile.am fribidi-0.19.7/Makefile.am
---- fribidi-0.19.7.orig/Makefile.am	2015-08-06 16:55:02.000000000 -0400
-+++ fribidi-0.19.7/Makefile.am	2017-12-27 17:43:06.000000000 -0500
-@@ -36,13 +36,7 @@
- 		$(srcdir)/ltmain.sh \
- 		$(srcdir)/missing \
- 		$(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs \
--		$(srcdir)/ChangeLog \
--		`find "$(srcdir)" -type f -name Makefile.in -print` \
--		`$(srcdir)/bootstrap --write-configure`
--# The last line above is a horrible hack.
--# GNU Coding Standards recommends that `make maintainer-clean' should not 
--# remove the configure script.
--# We instead make configure call bootstrap.
-+		$(srcdir)/ChangeLog
- 
- # Indent all C source and header files, using indent(1):
- 
diff --git a/contrib/fribidi/A03-no-doc.patch b/contrib/fribidi/A03-no-doc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 838e5f7d78b1..000000000000
--- a/contrib/fribidi/A03-no-doc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur fribidi-0.19.7.orig/Makefile.am fribidi-0.19.7/Makefile.am
---- fribidi-0.19.7.orig/Makefile.am	2015-08-06 16:55:02.000000000 -0400
-+++ fribidi-0.19.7/Makefile.am	2017-12-27 17:53:09.000000000 -0500
-@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
- ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
- 
- ## The order of subdirs is important, don't change without a reason.
--SUBDIRS = gen.tab charset lib bin doc test
-+SUBDIRS = gen.tab charset lib bin test
- 
- EXTRA_DIST = bootstrap ChangeLog.old
-