diff --git a/asciidoc.changes b/asciidoc.changes
index 4550fbc..f647842 100644
--- a/asciidoc.changes
+++ b/asciidoc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov  7 09:54:03 UTC 2017 - mpluskal@suse.com
+
+- Explicitly use python2 (fate#323526)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct  6 03:01:43 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com
 
diff --git a/asciidoc.spec b/asciidoc.spec
index 6c01ff2..13ca92a 100644
--- a/asciidoc.spec
+++ b/asciidoc.spec
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ Patch0:         asciidoc.version.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  docbook-xsl-stylesheets
-BuildRequires:  python >= 2.3
-BuildRequires:  python-xml
+BuildRequires:  python2 >= 2.3
+BuildRequires:  python2-xml
 Requires:       docbook-xsl-stylesheets
-Requires:       python >= 2.3
-Requires:       python-xml
+Requires:       python2 >= 2.3
+Requires:       python2-xml
 Recommends:     dblatex
 # a2x needs /usr/bin/xsltproc
 Recommends:     libxslt
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ This package contains examples and documents of asciidoc.
 %patch0 -p1
 
 %build
+sed -i "s|python|python2|g" Makefile.in
 autoreconf -fi
 %configure