diff --git a/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.changes b/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.changes
index 5edb382..fb9c3f2 100644
--- a/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.changes
+++ b/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec  1 13:33:39 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- switch to perl_requires macro
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 20 15:43:07 UTC 2010 - chris@computersalat.de
 
diff --git a/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.spec b/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.spec
index 7625599..5ce588f 100644
--- a/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.spec
+++ b/perl-MediaWiki-Bot-Plugin-Steward.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ BuildRequires:  perl(MediaWiki::Bot) >= 3.0.0
 BuildRequires:  perl(Net::CIDR)
 BuildRequires:  perl(URI::Escape)
 BuildRequires:  perl(WWW::Mechanize) >= 1.30
-Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
+%{perl_requires}
 Requires:       perl(Carp)
 Requires:       perl(HTML::TreeBuilder)
 Requires:       perl(MediaWiki::Bot) >= 3.0.0