diff --git a/apache-commons-beanutils.changes b/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
index 8b2e486..87abce2 100644
--- a/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  4 18:53:24 UTC 2014 - p.drouand@gmail.com
+
+- Remove java-devel dependency; not needed anymore
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul  8 11:35:52 UTC 2014 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-beanutils.spec b/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
index d7a4d44..6596879 100644
--- a/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ Source0:        commons-beanutils-%{version}-src.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  commons-collections
 BuildRequires:  commons-logging
-BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.6.0
 BuildRequires:  xml-commons-apis
 Requires:       commons-collections >= 2.0
 Requires:       commons-logging >= 1.0