diff --git a/crun-rpmlintrc b/crun-rpmlintrc
deleted file mode 100644
index a2c7302..0000000
--- a/crun-rpmlintrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# the warning is a false positive, as the call to chdir is actually there
-addFilter (".*missing-call-to-chdir-with-chroot.*")
diff --git a/crun.changes b/crun.changes
index 1465c81..4d5af9d 100644
--- a/crun.changes
+++ b/crun.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov  2 08:58:05 UTC 2021 - Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
+
+- Add libprotobuf-c-devel as an explicit dependency, for fixing
+  the build;
+- Get rid of rpmlintrc, as it's no longer needed.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug 23 15:22:18 UTC 2021 - Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/crun.spec b/crun.spec
index c55116a..f80979f 100644
--- a/crun.spec
+++ b/crun.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Name:           crun
 Version:        0.21
 Release:        0
 Source0:        https://github.com/containers/crun/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Source1:        crun-rpmlintrc
 URL:            https://github.com/containers/crun
 # We always run autogen.sh
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ BuildRequires:  git-core
 BuildRequires:  glibc-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  go-md2man
 BuildRequires:  libcap-devel
+BuildRequires:  libprotobuf-c-devel
 BuildRequires:  libseccomp-devel
 BuildRequires:  libselinux-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool