diff --git a/newt.changes b/newt.changes
index 2284e82..bdcbb02 100644
--- a/newt.changes
+++ b/newt.changes
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Fri Feb  4 19:08:58 UTC 2011 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
   + fix warnings in whiptcl.c and include Tcl_PkgProvide() call (Mikhail T.)
   + don't NULL deref when an invalid array is specified in checkboxtree
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
+- build on older distributions by owning locale/as
 
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 Mon Feb  1 12:07:52 UTC 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
diff --git a/newt.spec b/newt.spec
index b329cc4..4d7918d 100644
--- a/newt.spec
+++ b/newt.spec
@@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ popd 1>/dev/null
 %doc %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}/COPYING
 %{_bindir}/whiptail
 %{_mandir}/man1/whiptail.1*
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1020
+%dir %{_datadir}/locale/as
+%dir %{_datadir}/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES
+%{_datadir}/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/*
+%endif
+
 
 %files -n libnewt0_52
 %defattr (-,root,root)