diff --git a/gnucash.changes b/gnucash.changes
index 7899141..acf77be 100644
--- a/gnucash.changes
+++ b/gnucash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 27 19:03:55 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Require python-gnucash from the main package: silence a warning
+  on startup.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 12 13:54:03 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnucash.spec b/gnucash.spec
index d5fae1c..6430f13 100644
--- a/gnucash.spec
+++ b/gnucash.spec
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ Requires:       perl-Finance-Quote
 Requires:       perl-HTML-Parser
 Requires:       perl-HTML-TableExtract
 Requires:       perl-libwww-perl
+# the python bindings are split out for potential other consumers
+Requires:       python-gnucash >= %{version}
 Requires:       slib
 Recommends:     %{name}-lang
 Recommends:     gnucash-docs