diff --git a/gnu_parallel.changes b/gnu_parallel.changes
index cfbf20c..721a372 100644
--- a/gnu_parallel.changes
+++ b/gnu_parallel.changes
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Sun Mar 22 20:22:03 UTC 2015 - jengelh@inai.de
 
 - Avoid SLE11SP3 build failure by not mixing %doc with %_docdir/%name
   in the files list.
+- Split documentation (82%) into separate package per
+  rpmlint suggestion
 
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 Sun Mar 22 20:14:15 UTC 2015 - astieger@suse.com
diff --git a/gnu_parallel.spec b/gnu_parallel.spec
index 5f81a1d..30b8a8a 100644
--- a/gnu_parallel.spec
+++ b/gnu_parallel.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from
 a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into
 commands in parallel.
 
+%package doc
+Summary:        Documentation for GNU parallel
+Group:          Documentation/HTML
+
+%description doc
+GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one
+or more computers.
+This subpackage contains the documentation for Parallel.
+
 %prep
 %setup -qn parallel-%version
 
@@ -59,6 +68,9 @@ cp -a CITATION COPYING NEWS README "%buildroot/%_docdir/%name/"
 %_bindir/sql
 %_mandir/man1/*.1*
 %_mandir/man7/*.7*
+
+%files doc
+%defattr(-,root,root)
 %_docdir/%name/
 
 %changelog