diff --git a/perl-LockFile-Simple.changes b/perl-LockFile-Simple.changes
index 7e21d45..d661be3 100644
--- a/perl-LockFile-Simple.changes
+++ b/perl-LockFile-Simple.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:44 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Thu Mar 26 10:09:20 CET 2009 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
 
diff --git a/perl-LockFile-Simple.spec b/perl-LockFile-Simple.spec
index 364fe80..9c6e7be 100644
--- a/perl-LockFile-Simple.spec
+++ b/perl-LockFile-Simple.spec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Vendor:        openSUSE-Education
 Source:        %{real_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Requires:      perl = %{perl_version}
 BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 This simple locking scheme is not based on any file locking system calls such