diff --git a/websec.spec b/websec.spec
index 1024ab7..b1d35db 100644
--- a/websec.spec
+++ b/websec.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           websec
 Version:        1.9.0
-Release:        18%{?dist}
+Release:        19%{?dist}
 Summary:        Web Secretary - Web page monitoring software with highlighting
 
 Group:          Applications/Internet
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Source0:        http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/websec-1.9.0.tar.gz
 # parts of the Makefile that are unused anyway, so remove them with this patch;
 # upstream is dead afaics
 Patch0:         %{name}-disable-htmldocs
+# Patch1: Background in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254288
+# not send upstream, as its dead
+Patch1:         %{name}-silence-unescaped-left-brace-warnings.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  /usr/bin/pod2man
@@ -30,6 +33,7 @@ load the highlighted page in a browser.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .patch0
+%patch1 -p1 -b .patch1
 
 
 %build
@@ -68,6 +72,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Nov 22 2015 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora [AT] leemhuis [DOT] info> - 1.9.0-19
+- add patch to silence warnings "Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated,
+  passed through in regex" in perl 5.22  (#1254288)
+
 * Wed Jul 01 2015 Ralf Corsépius <corsepiu@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.1-18
 - Add dist-tag (RHBZ #1237192).