diff --git a/alsa.changes b/alsa.changes
index 192f7f9..6857d72 100644
--- a/alsa.changes
+++ b/alsa.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul 31 07:35:12 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Change libudev-devel BuildRequires to pkgconfig(udev): makes us
+  less prone to packaging changes, and in the end udev.pc is
+  exactly what we need to define _udevdir.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 18 09:32:07 CEST 2015 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/alsa.spec b/alsa.spec
index ad0c642..fffddc0 100644
--- a/alsa.spec
+++ b/alsa.spec
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Recommends:     alsa-oss
 Recommends:     alsa-plugins
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1200
-BuildRequires:  libudev-devel
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)
 %else
 BuildRequires:  udev
 %endif