diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index edd6b028..a879fcb8 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-11-10  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
+	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Removed no-longer-present
+	README.maint (shouldn't have been there in the first place).
+
 	* wget.texi (Mailing Lists): Added information aboug Gmane portal,
 	added subsection headings.
 
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index c0e10dbf..74abe7f6 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ $(SAMPLERCTEXI): $(srcdir)/sample.wgetrc
 info_TEXINFOS = wget.texi
 wget_TEXINFOS = fdl.texi sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion
 
-EXTRA_DIST = README.maint sample.wgetrc $(SAMPLERCTEXI) \
+EXTRA_DIST = sample.wgetrc \
+	     $(SAMPLERCTEXI) \
 	     texi2pod.pl
 
 wget.pod: $(srcdir)/wget.texi $(srcdir)/version.texi