diff --git a/fail2ban.changes b/fail2ban.changes
index 0deb75b..f53daf7 100644
--- a/fail2ban.changes
+++ b/fail2ban.changes
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Sat Jan 22 11:17:48 UTC 2022 - Arjen de Korte <suse+build@de-korte.org>
   * fail2ban-opensuse-service.patch
   * harden_fail2ban.service.patch
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 19 13:05:44 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- add python-rpm-macros buildrequires (bsc#1194752)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Nov 12 10:49:20 UTC 2021 - Johannes Weberhofer <jweberhofer@weberhofer.at>
 
diff --git a/fail2ban.spec b/fail2ban.spec
index 30ede88..40d60ab 100644
--- a/fail2ban.spec
+++ b/fail2ban.spec
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Patch401:       fail2ban-0.11.2-upstream-patch-python-3.9.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  logrotate
+BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  python3-tools
 # timezone package is required to run the tests
 BuildRequires:  timezone