diff --git a/apache-ivy.changes b/apache-ivy.changes
index 9a927d3..5c1b034 100644
--- a/apache-ivy.changes
+++ b/apache-ivy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr  8 18:12:07 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Remove the reference to parent from pom file, since we are not
+  building using maven.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb  7 14:48:24 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/apache-ivy.spec b/apache-ivy.spec
index da611f8..3529e7b 100644
--- a/apache-ivy.spec
+++ b/apache-ivy.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ BuildRequires:  commons-httpclient
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
-BuildRequires:  javapackages-tools
 BuildRequires:  jsch
 BuildRequires:  oro
 Provides:       ivy = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -51,8 +50,7 @@ reporting and publication.
 
 %package javadoc
 Summary:        API Documentation for ivy
-Group:          Development/Tools/Building
-Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+Group:          Documentation/HTML
 
 %description javadoc
 JavaDoc documentation for %{name}
@@ -62,6 +60,10 @@ JavaDoc documentation for %{name}
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 
+cp %{SOURCE2} pom.xml
+
+%pom_remove_parent .
+
 #TODO: return back when bouncycastle-pgp will be available
 rm -fr src/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/signer/bouncycastle
 
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ install -p -m644 build/artifact/jars/ivy.jar %{buildroot}%{_javadir}/ivy.jar
 ln -sf ../ivy.jar %{buildroot}%{_javadir}/%{name}/ivy.jar
 
 install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}/%{_mavenpomdir}/
-install -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}/%{_mavenpomdir}/JPP-ivy.pom
+install -m 0644 pom.xml %{buildroot}/%{_mavenpomdir}/JPP-ivy.pom
 # Maven depmap
 %add_maven_depmap JPP-ivy.pom ivy.jar