diff --git a/roles/notifs-frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/notifs-frontend/tasks/main.yml
index ef16ea38be..900b285be7 100644
--- a/roles/notifs-frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/notifs-frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
   notify:
   - restart apache
 
+- name: destroy a bogus config file brought in by python-datanommer-models
+  file: dest=/etc/fedmsg.d/datanommer.py state=absent
+  notify:
+  - restart apache
+
 - name: copy fmn httpd config
   copy: >
     src=fmn.web.conf dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/fmn.web.conf