diff --git a/perl-Unicode-String.changes b/perl-Unicode-String.changes
index c53b48d..11b871d 100644
--- a/perl-Unicode-String.changes
+++ b/perl-Unicode-String.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 15:36:39 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Sun Jan 10 15:43:32 CET 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/perl-Unicode-String.spec b/perl-Unicode-String.spec
index 2d23e50..673acaa 100644
--- a/perl-Unicode-String.spec
+++ b/perl-Unicode-String.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Url:            http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Unicode/
 Summary:        String of Unicode characters (UCS2/UTF16)
 Source:         Unicode-String-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 A Unicode::String object represents a sequence of Unicode characters.