diff --git a/gstreamer-plugins-base.changes b/gstreamer-plugins-base.changes
index 796dbbf..e2abd05 100644
--- a/gstreamer-plugins-base.changes
+++ b/gstreamer-plugins-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug 25 20:23:12 UTC 2017 - zaitor@opensuse.org
+
+- Drop conditional valgrind-devel BuildRequires, this type of
+  debugging is probably not done by users of binary packages.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul 14 11:43:21 UTC 2017 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gstreamer-plugins-base.spec b/gstreamer-plugins-base.spec
index b5eb665..c39641a 100644
--- a/gstreamer-plugins-base.spec
+++ b/gstreamer-plugins-base.spec
@@ -43,11 +43,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gstreamer-1.0) >= 1.12.0
 %if !0%{?is_opensuse}
 BuildRequires:  translation-update-upstream
 %endif
-BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
-%ifarch %ix86 ppc x86_64
-BuildRequires:  valgrind-devel
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  gobject-introspection-devel >= 1.31.1
+BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(alsa) >= 0.9.1
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(freetype2) >= 2.0.9
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gio-unix-2.0) >= 2.24