diff --git a/javapackages-tools.changes b/javapackages-tools.changes
index 837ad6f..2964fe5 100644
--- a/javapackages-tools.changes
+++ b/javapackages-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov 11 15:21:24 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Make the javapackages-local package depend on java-devel. It is
+  used for package building and this avoids each package to require
+  java-devel itself.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov  5 09:34:51 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/javapackages-tools.spec b/javapackages-tools.spec
index 0beec01..d7ee843 100644
--- a/javapackages-tools.spec
+++ b/javapackages-tools.spec
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ packaging in Linux distributions
 %package -n javapackages-local
 Summary:        Non-essential macros and scripts for Java packaging support
 Group:          Development/Languages/Java
+Requires:       java-devel
 Requires:       javapackages-tools = %{version}
 Requires:       python3-javapackages = %{version}