diff --git a/perl-XML-NodeFilter.changes b/perl-XML-NodeFilter.changes
index 9e9f8ab..e3ffcdc 100644
--- a/perl-XML-NodeFilter.changes
+++ b/perl-XML-NodeFilter.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 15:36:40 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-XML-NodeFilter.spec b/perl-XML-NodeFilter.spec
index 67cb7f9..b0ff471 100644
--- a/perl-XML-NodeFilter.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-NodeFilter.spec
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Url:            http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/
 Summary:        XML::NodeFilter
 Source:         XML-NodeFilter-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 XML::NodeFilter is a generic node filter class for DOM traversal as