diff --git a/cpanspec.yml b/cpanspec.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..451b2de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpanspec.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+---
+#description_paragraphs: 3
+#description: |-
+#  override description from CPAN
+#summary: override summary from CPAN
+#no_testing: broken upstream
+#sources:
+#  - source1
+#  - source2
+#patches:
+#  foo.patch: -p1
+#  bar.patch:
+#  baz.patch: PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE
+preamble: |-
+  BuildRequires:  perl(IO::Scalar)
+  Requires:       perl(IO::Scalar)
+#post_prep: |-
+# hunspell=`pkg-config --libs hunspell | sed -e 's,-l,,; s,  *,,g'`
+# sed -i -e "s,hunspell-X,$hunspell," t/00-prereq.t Makefile.PL 
+#post_build: |-
+# rm unused.files
+#post_install: |-
+# sed on %{name}.files
+#license: SUSE-NonFree
+#skip_noarch: 1
+#custom_build: |-
+#./Build build flags=%{?_smp_mflags} --myflag
+#custom_test: |-
+#startserver && make test
+#ignore_requires: Bizarre::Module
+#skip_doc: regexp_to_skip_for_doc.*
+#add_doc: files to add to docs
+#misc: |-
+#anything else to be added to spec file
+#follows directly after %files section, so it can contain new blocks or also
+#changes to %files section
diff --git a/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-FromXML.spec b/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-FromXML.spec
index 6e53455..0ad106e 100644
--- a/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-FromXML.spec
+++ b/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-FromXML.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ License:        CHECK(Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0-or-later)
 Summary:        Create Excel Spreadsheet from XML
 URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/%{cpan_name}
 Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BW/BWMCADAMS/%{cpan_name}-%{cpan_version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        cpanspec.yml
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ Provides:       perl(Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromXML::Workbook) = %{version}
 Provides:       perl(Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromXML::Worksheet) = %{version}
 %undefine       __perllib_provides
 %{perl_requires}
+# MANUAL BEGIN
+BuildRequires:  perl(IO::Scalar)
+Requires:       perl(IO::Scalar)
+# MANUAL END
 
 %description
 This module uses Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to turn a simple XML data file