diff --git a/gpg2.changes b/gpg2.changes
index 6a29f91..cbbb9d8 100644
--- a/gpg2.changes
+++ b/gpg2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  4 04:09:12 UTC 2018 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
+
+- Make package build reproducible (boo#1047218)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 30 14:14:08 UTC 2018 - kbabioch@suse.com
 
diff --git a/gpg2.spec b/gpg2.spec
index eb7a350..ed26de8 100644
--- a/gpg2.spec
+++ b/gpg2.spec
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ gpg2 provides GPGSM, gpg-agent, and a keybox library.
 %patch8 -p1
 %patch9 -p1
 %patch11 -p1
+touch -d 2018-05-04 doc/gpg.texi # to compensate for patch11 in order to not have man pages and info files have the build date (boo#1047218)
 
 %build
 date=$(date -u +%%Y-%%m-%%dT%%H:%%M+0000 -r %{SOURCE99})