diff --git a/roles/badges/backend/files/patched-fedmsg-hub b/roles/badges/backend/files/patched-fedmsg-hub
deleted file mode 100644
index e9e305bbab..0000000000
--- a/roles/badges/backend/files/patched-fedmsg-hub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# This file is managed by ansible.
-#
-# Its like "permanent hotfix" so that the fedmsg-hub loads
-# the forward-compat sqlalchemy.
-#
-
-__requires__ = ['fedmsg', "sqlalchemy>=0.8"]
-import sys
-from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.exit(
-        load_entry_point('fedmsg', 'console_scripts', 'fedmsg-hub')()
-    )
-
diff --git a/roles/badges/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/badges/backend/tasks/main.yml
index c0e94b48b5..e026e08bab 100644
--- a/roles/badges/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/badges/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -37,20 +37,6 @@
   - badges
   - badges/backend
 
-# Here I'm "permanently" hotfixing the fedmsg-hub
-# It needs to load the forward-compat sqlalchemy0.7 package from the get-go.
-- name: copy over patched fedmsg-hub
-  copy: >
-    src=patched-fedmsg-hub dest=/usr/bin/fedmsg-hub
-    owner=root group=root mode=0755
-  tags:
-  - patches
-  - hotfix
-  - badges
-  - badges/backend
-  notify:
-  - restart fedmsg-hub
-
 - name: copy over all our badge definitions
   copy: >
     src={{ item }}