diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9bd4f0d5f..cc3fe5029 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ cmake (3.0.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Add -Wl,--as-needed to LDFLAGS to avoid overlinking.
   * Drop custom cmake-gui manpage, upstream provides one now.
   * Build cmake-qt-gui against Qt 5.
+  * Drop obsolete lintian override cmake-data: extra-license-file.
 
  -- Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:21:55 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/cmake-data.lintian-overrides b/debian/cmake-data.lintian-overrides
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f68f7248..000000000
--- a/debian/cmake-data.lintian-overrides
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# this file is a template, not a real license
-cmake-data: extra-license-file usr/share/cmake-2.8/Templates/CPack.GenericLicense.txt