diff --git a/herbstluftwm.changes b/herbstluftwm.changes
index ca6eb5c..80fd2d0 100644
--- a/herbstluftwm.changes
+++ b/herbstluftwm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 11 12:26:17 UTC 2023 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Replace freetype-devel BuildRequires with freetype2: this is
+  actually what is needed, but as fontconfig happened to pull it in
+  already, things happened to work. Freetype 1 is not needed here.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug  1 07:19:24 UTC 2022 - Michael Vetter <mvetter@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/herbstluftwm.spec b/herbstluftwm.spec
index e13530d..498e52a 100644
--- a/herbstluftwm.spec
+++ b/herbstluftwm.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package herbstluftwm
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Source1:        https://herbstluftwm.org/tarballs/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz.sig
 Source2:        %{name}.desktop
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.1
-BuildRequires:  freetype-devel
+BuildRequires:  freetype2-devel
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++ >= 4.9
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-utils
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig