diff --git a/apache-commons-cli.changes b/apache-commons-cli.changes
index df3e18c..d62fd26 100644
--- a/apache-commons-cli.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-cli.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 25 17:19:16 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Remove pom parent, since we don't use it when not building with
+  maven
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  5 13:30:36 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-cli.spec b/apache-commons-cli.spec
index 95135ea..0b25b15 100644
--- a/apache-commons-cli.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-cli.spec
@@ -29,11 +29,9 @@ Source0:        http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/%{base_name}/source/%{short_n
 Source1:        build.xml.tar.bz2
 Patch0:         CLI-253-workaround.patch
 BuildRequires:  ant
-BuildRequires:  apache-commons-parent
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
-Requires:       apache-commons-parent
 Requires:       java >= 1.8
 Provides:       jakarta-%{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      jakarta-%{short_name} < %{version}
@@ -58,6 +56,8 @@ This package contains the API documentation for %{name}.
 %setup -q -n %{short_name}-%{version}-src -a1
 %patch0 -p1
 
+%pom_remove_parent
+
 %build
 ant -Dmaven.mode.offline=true package javadoc \
     -Dmaven.test.skip=true \