diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 976b288..4f7ce2c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Changes in version 1.9.1
        Obsoletes: pck1 <= <v1>[,] pck2 > <v2>
     (Bug discovered by Silvan Calarco)
 
++ update
+  * pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
+    Remove SPEC_OBSOLETES_ESCAPED; it's no more required.
+
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Changes in version 1.9.0 - Silvan Birthday Release
diff --git a/lib/libspec.lib.in b/lib/libspec.lib.in
index 3ffb2f0..c1d36a7 100644
--- a/lib/libspec.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libspec.lib.in
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ $FUNCNAME: * entry found at line $linenum: \"${tok[*]}\""
                      ",") skiptok="0"; continue ;;
                   esac
                   tok_pck="$(rpmvars.solve "$currtok" "$specfile")"
-                  SPEC_OBSOLETES[${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}]="\"$currtok\""
+                  SPEC_OBSOLETES[${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}]="$currtok"
                   notify.debug "\
 $FUNCNAME: SPEC_OBSOLETES = ( ${SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]} )"
                done
diff --git a/plugins/pck-update.in b/plugins/pck-update.in
index 419d939..d25252a 100644
--- a/plugins/pck-update.in
+++ b/plugins/pck-update.in
@@ -486,9 +486,6 @@ rpm -q $USER_RPMDEFINE_OPTS --specfile --specedit $SRPM_SPECFILE_WITH_PATH \
         [ "$SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES" ] || specfile.getvars -s $SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES
         [ "$SPEC_BUILDROOT"     ] || specfile.getvars -s $SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED SPEC_BUILDROOT
 
-        # escape '<' and '>' characters
-        SPEC_OBSOLETES_ESCAPED=`echo "${SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}" | sed "s|<|\<|;s|>|\>|"`
-
         echo "\
 SPEC_NAME=\"$SPEC_NAME\"
 SPEC_VERSION=\"$SPEC_VERSION\"
@@ -506,7 +503,10 @@ $(for i in `seq 1 1 ${#SPEC_LICENSE[*]}`; do
    echo -n "\"${SPEC_LICENSE[i-1]}\" "
 done))
 SPEC_TARGET=(${SPEC_TARGET[*]})
-SPEC_OBSOLETES=(${SPEC_OBSOLETES_ESCAPED[*]})
+SPEC_OBSOLETES=(\
+$(for i in `seq 1 1 ${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}`; do
+   echo -n "\"${SPEC_OBSOLETES[i-1]}\" "
+done))
 SPEC_BUILDARCH=\"$SPEC_BUILDARCH\"
 SPEC_BUILDROOT=\"$SPEC_BUILDROOT\"
 SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES=(\