diff --git a/iptables.changes b/iptables.changes
index 5fb2331..dfc69f9 100644
--- a/iptables.changes
+++ b/iptables.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Apr 23 16:20:02 UTC 2014 - dmueller@suse.com
+
+- remove dependency on sgmltool: doesn't seem to be used
+  and reduces rebuild time on aarch64 by 8 hours
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Nov 23 04:39:31 UTC 2013 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/iptables.spec b/iptables.spec
index 4e9b272..cc8e83a 100644
--- a/iptables.spec
+++ b/iptables.spec
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ Patch3:         iptables-batch.patch
 Patch4:         iptables-apply-mktemp-fix.patch
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-%if 0%{?suse_version}
-BuildRequires:  sgmltool
-%endif
 %if 0%{?fedora_version} || 0%{?centos_version}
 BuildRequires:  sgml-common
 %endif