diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ea8e354c6..141cd8161 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ cdata.set('PACKAGE_URL', '"http://pipewire.org"')
 cdata.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', pipewire_version)
 cdata.set_quoted('MODULEDIR', modules_install_dir)
 cdata.set_quoted('PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_DIR', pipewire_configdir)
-cdata.set_quoted('VERSION', pipewire_version)
 cdata.set_quoted('PLUGINDIR', spa_plugindir)
 # FIXME: --with-memory-alignment],[8,N,malloc,pagesize (default is 32)]) option
 cdata.set('MEMORY_ALIGNMENT_MALLOC', 1)
diff --git a/src/gst/gstpipewire.c b/src/gst/gstpipewire.c
index ef8a9ef58..56b864dee 100644
--- a/src/gst/gstpipewire.c
+++ b/src/gst/gstpipewire.c
@@ -66,4 +66,4 @@ GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
     GST_VERSION_MINOR,
     pipewire,
     "Uses PipeWire to handle media streams",
-    plugin_init, VERSION, "MIT/X11", "pipewire", "pipewire.org")
+    plugin_init, PACKAGE_VERSION, "MIT/X11", "pipewire", "pipewire.org")