diff --git a/contrib/jenkins-arm.sh b/contrib/jenkins-arm.sh
index 510b0e9..ad992af 100755
--- a/contrib/jenkins-arm.sh
+++ b/contrib/jenkins-arm.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-./contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
+verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
 
 autoreconf --install --force
 ./configure --enable-static \
diff --git a/contrib/jenkins.sh b/contrib/jenkins.sh
index 6a72840..4a26776 100755
--- a/contrib/jenkins.sh
+++ b/contrib/jenkins.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#!/bin/sh
+# jenkins build helper script for libosmo-sccp.  This is how we build on jenkins.osmocom.org
 
 set -ex
 
-./contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
+verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
 
 if [ "x$label" = "xFreeBSD_amd64" ]; then
         ENABLE_SANITIZE=""
diff --git a/contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py b/contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 020bb4d..0000000
--- a/contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# vim: expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 nocin
-
-'''
-Usage:
-  verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py PATH [PATH [...]]
-
-e.g.
-libosmocore/contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
-'''
-
-import re
-import sys
-import codecs
-
-value_string_array_re = re.compile(
-  r'((\bstruct\s+value_string\b[^{;]*?)\s*=[^{;]*{[^;]*}\s*;)',
-  re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
-
-members = r'(\.(value|str)\s*=\s*)?'
-terminator_re = re.compile('{\s*' + members + '(0|NULL)\s*,'
-                           '\s*' + members + '(0|NULL)\s*}')
-errors_found = 0
-
-for f in sys.argv[1:]:
-  arrays = value_string_array_re.findall(codecs.open(f, "r", "utf-8").read())
-  for array_def, name in arrays:
-    if not terminator_re.search(array_def):
-      print('ERROR: file contains unterminated value_string %r: %r'
-            % (name, f))
-      errors_found += 1
-
-sys.exit(errors_found)