diff --git a/community/geos/20-ruby27.patch b/community/geos/20-ruby27.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dbb231a518a..00000000000
--- a/community/geos/20-ruby27.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-Author: Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de>
-Summary: Patch for modified 'rb_define_virtual_variable' signature in Ruby 2.7
-         This patch can hopefully be removed when Swig supports Ruby 2.7
-Url: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/1689
-----
-
---- a/swig/ruby/Makefile.in
-+++ b/swig/ruby/Makefile.in
-@@ -873,6 +873,7 @@ uninstall-am: uninstall-rubyextensiondir
- 
- @ENABLE_RUBY_TRUE@@ENABLE_SWIG_TRUE@geos_wrap.cxx: ../geos.i ruby.i
- @ENABLE_RUBY_TRUE@@ENABLE_SWIG_TRUE@	$(SWIG) -c++ -ruby -autorename -o $@ $<
-+@ENABLE_RUBY_TRUE@@ENABLE_SWIG_TRUE@	sed -i 's/swig_ruby_trackings_count, NULL/(rb_gvar_getter_t *)swig_ruby_trackings_count, (rb_gvar_setter_t *)NULL/g' $@
- 
- @ENABLE_RUBY_TRUE@@ENABLE_SWIG_FALSE@geos_wrap.cxx: ../geos.i ruby.i
- @ENABLE_RUBY_TRUE@@ENABLE_SWIG_FALSE@	@echo "SWIG is disabled, can't build geos_wrap.cxx"
diff --git a/community/geos/APKBUILD b/community/geos/APKBUILD
index 6c760992119..9a8db471a53 100644
--- a/community/geos/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/geos/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de>
 pkgname=geos
 pkgver=3.8.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="GEOS is a library providing OpenGIS and JTS spatial operations in C++."
 url="https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/"
 arch="all !s390x !mips !mips64"
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ subpackages="
 source="
 	http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-$pkgver.tar.bz2
 	10-configure-python3.patch
-	20-ruby27.patch
 	"
 
 build() {
@@ -72,5 +71,4 @@ ruby() {
 	rm -rf "${pkgdir:?}"/usr/local
 }
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-a76aceadb30c6a078ef9c671d8335647bd6b94094bd4bdda5958f0d50271552e8f1f7b4e9d4295986f4371a446071c3cc3a446ef520543e820bde83833fea18e  10-configure-python3.patch
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+a76aceadb30c6a078ef9c671d8335647bd6b94094bd4bdda5958f0d50271552e8f1f7b4e9d4295986f4371a446071c3cc3a446ef520543e820bde83833fea18e  10-configure-python3.patch"