diff --git a/glab.changes b/glab.changes
index 25953b8..f977b8b 100644
--- a/glab.changes
+++ b/glab.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 10 09:33:35 UTC 2023 - Johannes Kastl <kastl@b1-systems.de>
+
+- adapt BuildRequires to allow building on
+  Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Almalinux/RockyLinux
+- BuildRequire go1.19 on openSUSE
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 07 07:37:25 UTC 2023 - kastl@b1-systems.de
 
diff --git a/glab.spec b/glab.spec
index 74c28fc..2f5c9c2 100644
--- a/glab.spec
+++ b/glab.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ URL:            https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        vendor.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  golang-packaging
-BuildRequires:  golang(API) >= 1.18
+%if 0%{?fedora_version} || 0%{?rhel_version} || 0%{?centos_version} || 0%{?almalinux_version} || 0%{?rocky_version}
+BuildRequires:  golang >= 1.19
+%else
+BuildRequires:  golang(API) >= 1.19
+%endif
 Suggests:       glab-doc
 
 %description