diff --git a/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.changes b/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.changes
index 2419084..864a78c 100644
--- a/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.changes
+++ b/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec  1 13:36:19 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- switch to perl_requires macro
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug 25 10:16:54 UTC 2010 - pascal.bleser@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.spec b/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.spec
index aa1ea8f..2cbb19f 100644
--- a/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-SemanticDiff.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SemanticDiff/
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 License:        Perl License
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/build-%{name}-%{version}
-Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
+%{perl_requires}
 BuildRequires:  make perl
 BuildRequires:  perl(Module::Build) >= 0.34
 BuildRequires:  perl(Digest::MD5)