diff --git a/package/spice/spice.hash b/package/spice/spice.hash
index 04bd516689..c9b591f41d 100644
--- a/package/spice/spice.hash
+++ b/package/spice/spice.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	f148ea30135bf80a4f465ce723a1cd6d4ccb34c098b6298a020b378ace8569b6	spice-0.12.6.tar.bz2
+sha256	f901a5c5873d61acac84642f9eea5c4d6386fc3e525c2b68792322794e1c407d	spice-0.12.8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/spice/spice.mk b/package/spice/spice.mk
index f1fb46d29c..7b09f39fe7 100644
--- a/package/spice/spice.mk
+++ b/package/spice/spice.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SPICE_VERSION = 0.12.6
+SPICE_VERSION = 0.12.8
 SPICE_SOURCE = spice-$(SPICE_VERSION).tar.bz2
 SPICE_SITE = http://www.spice-space.org/download/releases
 SPICE_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
@@ -47,28 +47,6 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPUS),y)
 SPICE_DEPENDENCIES += opus
 endif
 
-# build system uses pkg-config --variable=codegendir spice-protocol which
-# returns the runtime path rather than build time, so it needs some help
-SPICE_MAKE_OPTS = CODE_GENERATOR_BASEDIR=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/spice-protocol
-SPICE_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS = $(SPICE_MAKE_OPTS) DESTDIR=$(STAGING_DIR) install
-SPICE_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS = $(SPICE_MAKE_OPTS) DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install
-
-# spice uses a number of source files that are generated with python / pyparsing.
-# The generated files are part of the tarball, so python / pyparsing isn't needed
-# when building from the tarball, but the configure script gets confused and looks
-# for the wrong file name to know if it needs to check for python / pyparsing,
-# so convince it they aren't needed.
-# It will also regenerate these files if the spice-protocol protocol definition
-# is newer than the generated files (which it will be when spice-protocol
-# installs it to staging), so ensure their timestamp is updated to skip this.
-define SPICE_NO_PYTHON_PYPARSING
-	mkdir -p $(@D)/client
-	touch $(@D)/client/generated_marshallers.cpp
-	touch $(@D)/spice-common/common/generated_*
-endef
-
-SPICE_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += SPICE_NO_PYTHON_PYPARSING
-
 # We need to tweak spice.pc because it /forgets/ (for static linking) that
 # it should link against libz and libjpeg. libz is pkg-config-aware, while
 # libjpeg isn't, hence the two-line tweak