diff --git a/gparted.changes b/gparted.changes
index 7e2a55f..e3f81c7 100644
--- a/gparted.changes
+++ b/gparted.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul  9 18:54:28 UTC 2019 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Drop scrollkeeper BuildRequires and stop passing
+  --disable-scrollkeeper to configure: No longer needed nor used or
+  recognized.
+- Update macros to current standard.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jul  7 21:50:56 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Trim marketing filler wording from description.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul  2 06:51:26 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/gparted.spec b/gparted.spec
index c1c67d5..027b05f 100644
--- a/gparted.spec
+++ b/gparted.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ BuildRequires:  intltool
 BuildRequires:  perl-XML-Parser
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  polkit
-BuildRequires:  scrollkeeper
 BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
 BuildRequires:  xfsprogs-devel
 BuildRequires:  yelp-tools
@@ -65,16 +64,16 @@ BuildRequires:  translation-update-upstream
 %endif
 
 %description
-GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing,
-moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is
-useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage,
-copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another
-(disk imaging).
+GParted is a utility for creating, destroying, resizing, moving,
+checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is
+useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing
+disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one
+partition with another (disk imaging).
 
 %lang_package
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%autosetup -p1
 %if !0%{?is_opensuse}
 translation-update-upstream
 %endif
@@ -82,9 +81,8 @@ translation-update-upstream
 %build
 export GKSUPROG="pkexec"
 %configure \
-	--disable-scrollkeeper \
 	--enable-xhost-root
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+%make_build
 
 %install
 %make_install