diff --git a/gnome-common.changes b/gnome-common.changes
index e832485..4776008 100644
--- a/gnome-common.changes
+++ b/gnome-common.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov  5 12:53:08 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add autoconf-archive Requires: the files ax_check_enable_debug.m4
+  and ax_code_coverage.m4 are now shipped by ac-archive and from
+  a GNOME perspective, those two files are mandatory to be present
+  for a bootstrap.
+- Remove ax_check_enable_debug.m4 and ax_code_coverage.m4 from
+  gnome-common installation.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 22 14:24:22 UTC 2014 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnome-common.spec b/gnome-common.spec
index a128850..2022b74 100644
--- a/gnome-common.spec
+++ b/gnome-common.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Url:            http://www.gnome.org/
 Source:         http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-common/3.14/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 Requires:       autoconf
+# we need autoconf-archive >= 2014.10.15, as this is when ax_check_enable_debug.m4 and ax_code_coverage.m4 became part of it.
+Requires:       autoconf-archive >= 2014.10.15
 Requires:       automake
 Requires:       gettext-tools
 # Avoiding pkgconfig()-style because we want glib-gettextize
@@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %make_install
+# the files ax_check_enable_debug.m4 and ax_code_coverage.m4 live in autoconf-archive
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/aclocal/{ax_check_enable_debug,ax_code_coverage}.m4
 
 %clean
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
@@ -64,8 +68,6 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/gnome-common.m4
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4
-%{_datadir}/aclocal/ax_check_enable_debug.m4
-%{_datadir}/aclocal/ax_code_coverage.m4
 %{_datadir}/gnome-common/
 
 %changelog