diff --git a/gnome-desktop.changes b/gnome-desktop.changes
index 544b443..9dc131b 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.changes
+++ b/gnome-desktop.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  8 22:49:20 UTC 2011 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Split typelib in subpackage typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 21 16:34:25 UTC 2011 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnome-desktop.spec b/gnome-desktop.spec
index a56b5d0..595f914 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.spec
+++ b/gnome-desktop.spec
@@ -80,11 +80,23 @@ reasons. There is no API or ABI guarantee, although we are doing our
 best to provide stability. Documentation for the API is available with
 gtk-doc.
 
+%package -n typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0
+Summary:        The GNOME Desktop API Library
+Group:          System/Libraries
+
+%description -n typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0
+The libgnome-desktop library provides API shared by several applications
+on the desktop, but that cannot live in the platform for various
+reasons. There is no API or ABI guarantee, although we are doing our
+best to provide stability. Documentation for the API is available with
+gtk-doc.
+
 %package -n libgnome-desktop-3-devel
 License:        LGPLv2.1+
 Summary:        The GNOME Desktop API Library -- Development Files
 Group:          Development/Libraries/GNOME
 Requires:       libgnome-desktop-3-2 = %{version}
+Requires:       typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0 = %{version}
 %if %IS_DEFAULT_GNOME_DESKTOP
 Provides:       %{name}-devel = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      %{name}-devel < %{version}
@@ -168,6 +180,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %endif
 %{_datadir}/libgnome-desktop-3.0/
 %{_libdir}/libgnome-desktop-3.so.*
+
+%files -n typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0
+%defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_libdir}/girepository-1.0/GnomeDesktop-3.0.typelib
 
 %files -n libgnome-desktop-3-devel