diff --git a/gtranslator.changes b/gtranslator.changes
index 3c2d888..3263751 100644
--- a/gtranslator.changes
+++ b/gtranslator.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 18 12:05:35 UTC 2015 - zaitor@opensuse.org
+
+- Own appdata dir on older versions of openSUSE. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 16 09:34:18 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gtranslator.spec b/gtranslator.spec
index d02b6be..84d36df 100644
--- a/gtranslator.spec
+++ b/gtranslator.spec
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ find %{buildroot}%{_libdir} -type f -name "*.la" -delete -print
 %{_bindir}/%{name}
 %{_libdir}/%{name}/
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/
+# own dir on older version of openSUSE
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1320
+%dir %{_datadir}/appdata/
+%endif
 %{_datadir}/appdata/gtranslator.appdata.xml
 %{_datadir}/applications/*.desktop
 %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/*.gschema.xml