diff --git a/yt-dlp.changes b/yt-dlp.changes
index 93a4319..a7ee08a 100644
--- a/yt-dlp.changes
+++ b/yt-dlp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 25 03:06:38 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Rework Python build procedure [boo#1216467]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Oct 22 22:36:58 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/yt-dlp.spec b/yt-dlp.spec
index 766f200..594ece0 100644
--- a/yt-dlp.spec
+++ b/yt-dlp.spec
@@ -24,42 +24,21 @@ License:        CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND SUSE-Public-Domain
 Group:          Productivity/Networking/Web/Utilities
 URL:            https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
 Source:         https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/%version/yt-dlp.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  make >= 4
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
-BuildRequires:  python3-devel >= 3.8
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150400
-BuildRequires:  python311-devel
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150300
-BuildRequires:  python310-devel
-%else
-BuildRequires:  python39-devel
-%endif
-%endif
-%endif
+BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  zip
 BuildArch:      noarch
 Requires:       ffmpeg
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
 Requires:       python3 >= 3.8
-Suggests:       python3-Brotli
-Suggests:       python3-certifi
-Suggests:       python3-mutagen
-Suggests:       python3-pycryptodomex
-Suggests:       python3-websockets
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150400
-Requires:       python311
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150300
-Requires:       python310
-%else
-Requires:       python39
-%endif
-%endif
 %endif
+Requires:       python3-yt-dlp
+Suggests:       %{python_module Brotli}
+Suggests:       %{python_module certifi}
+Suggests:       %{python_module mutagen}
+Suggests:       %{python_module pycryptodomex}
+Suggests:       %{python_module websockets}
 %python_subpackages
 
 %description
@@ -105,28 +84,15 @@ The direct Python interface into yt-dlp.
 
 %build
 rm -f youtube-dl yt-dlp
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
-PYTHON="%_bindir/python3" \
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150400
-PYTHON="%_bindir/python3.11" \
-%else
-%if 0%{?sle_version} > 150300
-PYTHON="%_bindir/python3.10" \
-%else
-PYTHON="%_bindir/python3.9" \
-%endif
-%endif
-%endif
- %make_build yt-dlp
+#
+# A self-decompressing yt-dlp is built only when python_build is not
+# exercised; else yt-dlp is a loader.
+#
+%python_build
+%make_build yt-dlp
 
 %install
 b="%buildroot"
-install -Dvm0755 yt-dlp "$b/%_bindir/yt-dlp"
-install -Dvm0644 completions/bash/yt-dlp "$b/%_datadir/bash-completion/completions/yt-dlp"
-install -Dvm0644 completions/zsh/_yt-dlp "$b/%_datadir/zsh/site-functions/_yt-dlp"
-install -Dvm0644 completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish "$b/%_datadir/fish/completions/yt-dlp.fish"
-install -Dvm0644 yt-dlp.1 "$b/%_mandir/man1/yt-dlp.1"
 %python_install
 rm -Rf "$b/%_datadir/doc"