diff --git a/gobject-introspection.changes b/gobject-introspection.changes
index 1110681..caea8ef 100644
--- a/gobject-introspection.changes
+++ b/gobject-introspection.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Oct 12 20:53:47 UTC 2019 - Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
+
+- Depend on the specific Python ABI version the module was built with,
+  as the _giscanner binary module is ABI dependent. Fixes boo#1153837
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep  9 15:29:12 CDT 2019 - mgorse@suse.com
 
diff --git a/gobject-introspection.spec b/gobject-introspection.spec
index 195aaee..d2451c2 100644
--- a/gobject-introspection.spec
+++ b/gobject-introspection.spec
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Requires:       libgirepository-1_0-1 = %{version}
 # gi-find-deps uses the enhanced grep variant in order to do multi-line matching (for pkg.requires(..))
 Requires:       pcre-tools
 Requires:       python3-xml
+Requires:       python(abi) = %{python3_version}
 
 %description
 The goal of the project is to describe the APIs and collect them in