diff --git a/apache-commons-math.changes b/apache-commons-math.changes
index 87522ef..337170b 100644
--- a/apache-commons-math.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-math.changes
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Mon Nov 11 11:22:34 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
 - Add alias to the maven artifact
 - Clean-up the spec file
+- Remove reference to the parent pom, since we don't build with
+  maven
 
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 Tue May 15 12:56:51 UTC 2018 - fstrba@suse.com
diff --git a/apache-commons-math.spec b/apache-commons-math.spec
index eda3e45..c5dcdca 100644
--- a/apache-commons-math.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-math.spec
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ This package contains the API documentation for %{name}.
 %setup -q -n %{short_name}3-%{version}-src
 %patch0 -p1
 
+%pom_remove_parent .
+
 %build
 export CLASSPATH=$(build-classpath ant-junit junit)
 ant -Dant.build.javac.source=8 -Dcompile.source=8 \