diff --git a/mapserver.changes b/mapserver.changes
index acca75c..c63e271 100644
--- a/mapserver.changes
+++ b/mapserver.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 20 01:15:24 UTC 2021 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Drop BuildRequires on binary library packages; this is wrong.
+- Drop excessive runtime package requirements.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Dec 23 20:07:24 UTC 2020 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/mapserver.spec b/mapserver.spec
index 68b78fe..e44a7e7 100644
--- a/mapserver.spec
+++ b/mapserver.spec
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  cairo-devel
 BuildRequires:  chrpath
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 2.4
-BuildRequires:  freetype2
 BuildRequires:  freetype2-devel
 BuildRequires:  fribidi-devel
 BuildRequires:  gcc
@@ -61,7 +60,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libcurl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libexpat-devel
 BuildRequires:  libgdal-devel >= 1.10
 BuildRequires:  libgeos-devel
-BuildRequires:  libhdf4
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
 BuildRequires:  libproj-devel
@@ -87,12 +85,6 @@ BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-libXpm-devel
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
 Requires:       %{libname} = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       FastCGI
-Requires:       apache2
-Requires:       fribidi
-Requires:       librsvg
-Requires:       mysql
-Requires:       postgresql >= 9.1
 Requires:       proj
 
 %description
@@ -103,7 +95,7 @@ custom GIS data.
 
 %package -n %{libname}
 Summary:        Mapsserver library for mapserver or mapscript module
-Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Group:          System/Libraries
 
 %description -n %{libname}
 Mapserver library for mapserver or mapscript module. you need this lib to run mapserver
@@ -391,6 +383,6 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/tests/vera
 %dir %{_includedir}/mapserver
 %{_includedir}/mapserver/*
 %{_libdir}/libmapserver.so
-/usr/share/mapserver
+%{_datadir}/mapserver
 
 %changelog