diff --git a/e2fsprogs.changes b/e2fsprogs.changes
index 1d229eb..4539049 100644
--- a/e2fsprogs.changes
+++ b/e2fsprogs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 18 14:44:00 UTC 2021 - Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+
+- Remove autoreconf (and resulting dependencies) from the spec file. The
+  upstream configure script should be fine.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 16 17:31:25 UTC 2021 - Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
 
 - Update to 1.46.1:
diff --git a/e2fsprogs.spec b/e2fsprogs.spec
index 1b0aa16..882d9d8 100644
--- a/e2fsprogs.spec
+++ b/e2fsprogs.spec
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ Supplements:    filesystem(ext2) filesystem(ext3) filesystem(ext4)
 %else
 %bcond_with systemd
 %endif
-BuildRequires:  autoconf
-BuildRequires:  autoconf-archive
-BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  libblkid-devel
 BuildRequires:  libuuid-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
@@ -259,7 +256,6 @@ cp %{SOURCE2} .
 
 %build
 %global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects
-autoreconf --force --install
 %configure \
   --with-root-prefix=''   \
   --enable-elf-shlibs \