diff --git a/perl-HTML-TagParser.changes b/perl-HTML-TagParser.changes
index 0946d8e..c117e4c 100644
--- a/perl-HTML-TagParser.changes
+++ b/perl-HTML-TagParser.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:40 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul  9 23:14:09 CEST 2008 - jw@suse.de
 
diff --git a/perl-HTML-TagParser.spec b/perl-HTML-TagParser.spec
index f41fe9b..b269199 100644
--- a/perl-HTML-TagParser.spec
+++ b/perl-HTML-TagParser.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Release:        1
 Source:         HTML-TagParser-%{oversion}.tar.bz2
 Patch:		HTML-TagParser-%{oversion}-subtree.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 HTML::TagParser - Yet another HTML document parser with DOM-like methods.