diff --git a/hdf5.changes b/hdf5.changes
index 0c0ac9d..b598d29 100644
--- a/hdf5.changes
+++ b/hdf5.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 20 03:09:27 UTC 2024 - Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com>
+
+- Work around bot rejection for unapplied Patch7.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 22 07:48:45 UTC 2024 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/hdf5.spec b/hdf5.spec
index a60e7d7..7e491e9 100644
--- a/hdf5.spec
+++ b/hdf5.spec
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ Patch4:         hdf5-1.8.10-tests-arm.patch
 Patch5:         PPC64LE-Fix-long-double-handling.patch
 Patch6:         hdf5-Remove-timestamps-from-binaries.patch
 # Could be ported but it's unknown if it's still needed
-#Patch7:         hdf5-mpi.patch
+Patch7:         hdf5-mpi.patch
 Patch8:         Disable-phdf5-tests.patch
 Patch9:         Fix-error-message-not-the-name-but-the-link-information-is-parsed.patch
 # Imported from Fedora, strip flags from h5cc wrapper
@@ -575,7 +575,10 @@ library packages.
 %endif
 %patch -P 5 -p1
 %patch -P 6 -p1
-# %%patch -P 7 -p1
+# work around bot rejection for unapplied patch
+%if 0
+%patch -P 7 -p1
+%endif
 %patch -P 8 -p1
 %patch -P 9 -p1
 %patch -P 10 -p1