diff --git a/perl-Convert-BER.changes b/perl-Convert-BER.changes
index fc94726..27f3f9d 100644
--- a/perl-Convert-BER.changes
+++ b/perl-Convert-BER.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:26 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Sun May 23 16:56:55 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/perl-Convert-BER.spec b/perl-Convert-BER.spec
index 3047af9..e9bba29 100644
--- a/perl-Convert-BER.spec
+++ b/perl-Convert-BER.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 Summary:        ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules
 Source:         http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Convert-BER-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 Convert::BER is a Perl object class implementation for encoding and