diff --git a/python-appdirs.changes b/python-appdirs.changes
index e814e37..b4280e9 100644
--- a/python-appdirs.changes
+++ b/python-appdirs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 17 11:02:29 UTC 2023 - Daniel Garcia <daniel.garcia@suse.com>
+
+- Add setuptools build requirement for building, distutils is not
+  available anymore since python 3.12
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 21 12:21:54 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-appdirs.spec b/python-appdirs.spec
index 9060246..9086e8f 100644
--- a/python-appdirs.spec
+++ b/python-appdirs.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/a/appdirs/appdirs-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildArch:      noarch
@@ -58,12 +59,7 @@ sed -r -i '1s/^#!.*$//' appdirs.py
 
 %install
 %python_install
-# fix up egg-info because distutils is bad and should feel bad
-%{python_expand rm %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/*.egg-info
-cp -r appdirs.egg-info \
-    %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/appdirs-%{version}-py%{$python_version}.egg-info
-%fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
-}
+%python_expand fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %check
 %pyunittest