diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 5ec71d2f987f5f52ae033d01c9a3ed73fb1b45fd..d5ad63182474246f90bbb9af1b0fb67c3744953f 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ variables:
   ## Spack github version, v0.18.0
   SPACK_VERSION: "4c6564f10aa516bc00c1d7dbfdeafe35128985fe"
   ## Space-separated list of spack cherry-picks
-  SPACK_CHERRYPICKS: ""
+  SPACK_CHERRYPICKS: "adc9f887eac78a81bb8189d603f4dc45ed3509c1"
   ## Ref: https://github.com/spack/spack/commit/[hash]
+  ## adc9f887eac78a81bb8189d603f4dc45ed3509c1: acts-dd4hep: new package; acts: new version
 
   ## We need to enable Docker Buildkit to use cache mounts and better
   ## build performance overal
diff --git a/spack/packages/acts/package.py b/spack/packages/acts/package.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e223391568fab0eb6cdc0f0b3197f6f4f1bea239..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spack/packages/acts/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-from spack.pkg.builtin.acts import Acts as BuiltinActs
-class Acts(BuiltinActs):
-    version('19.1.0', commit='82f42a2cc80d4259db251275c09b84ee97a7bd22', submodules=True)