diff --git a/appstream-glib.changes b/appstream-glib.changes
index 79082df..d8316e2 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.changes
+++ b/appstream-glib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 24 15:07:47 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Also obsolete appdata-tools-lang to facilitate updates.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 31 16:46:45 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/appstream-glib.spec b/appstream-glib.spec
index 374c881..2130bba 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.spec
+++ b/appstream-glib.spec
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ Requires:       typelib-1_0-AppStreamGlib-1_0 = %{version}
 # appdata-tools was consumed into appstream-glib and is no longer maintained upstream
 Obsoletes:      appdata-tools < 0.1.9
 Provides:       appdata-tools = 0.1.9
+# Also obsolete the -lang package; or we end up with strange conflicts
+Obsoletes:      appdata-tools-lang < 0.1.9
 
 %description devel
 This library provides GObjects and helper methods to make it easy to read and write AppStream metadata.