diff --git a/elilo.changes b/elilo.changes
index 9c11fe9..15b3c63 100644
--- a/elilo.changes
+++ b/elilo.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar  3 11:12:54 UTC 2018 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- Do not include rebuild counter in rpm to make build-compare happy
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 31 12:41:32 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/elilo.spec b/elilo.spec
index 40ca084..7a1af7e 100644
--- a/elilo.spec
+++ b/elilo.spec
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ perl -pi -e 's{/usr/lib}{%{_libdir}}' Make.defaults
 ## DO NOT ADD RPM OPT FLAGS! THIS DOES NOT BUILD AGAINST GLIBC. ##
 ##################################################################
 make OPTIMFLAGS="-fmessage-length=0"
-perl -pe 's{\@EDITION\@}{%{version}-%{release}};
+perl -pe 's{\@EDITION\@}{%{version}};
 	  s{\@LIBDIR\@}{%{_libdir}};
 	  s{\@ARCH\@}{%{_target_cpu}};
 	' < %{SOURCE1} > elilo.pl &&