diff --git a/SDL2_image.changes b/SDL2_image.changes
index 95b7dbf..3f991a2 100644
--- a/SDL2_image.changes
+++ b/SDL2_image.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep  5 07:42:27 UTC 2022 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Add back Provides: SDL2_image = %version-%release to the library
+  package: the python deps somewhat depend on that to not have to
+  know about all soversion changes.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Aug 20 08:13:36 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/SDL2_image.spec b/SDL2_image.spec
index 14862b9..7a81f18 100644
--- a/SDL2_image.spec
+++ b/SDL2_image.spec
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ TIFF and WEBP formats.
 %package -n %lname
 Summary:        Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 image loading library
 Group:          System/Libraries
+Provides:       SDL2_image = %version-%release
 
 %description -n %lname
 This is a simple library to load images of various formats as SDL