diff --git a/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.changes b/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.changes
index 768fc27..e92697c 100644
--- a/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.changes
+++ b/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov 30 19:21:00 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- switch to perl_requires macro
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 17 08:13:57 UTC 2010 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
 
diff --git a/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.spec b/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.spec
index cc3a65a..82f1b04 100644
--- a/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.spec
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 Url:            http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XML::NamespaceSupport
 Source:         %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+%{perl_requires}
 BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
 BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More) >= 0.47
 BuildRequires:  perl(version)
 BuildRequires:  perl(YAML::Syck)
-Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
 
 %description
 This module offers a simple way to process namespaced XML names