diff --git a/itstool.changes b/itstool.changes
index 0b1569e..bd472f7 100644
--- a/itstool.changes
+++ b/itstool.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar  6 13:46:28 UTC 2012 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- do not buildrequire python, libxml2-python is enough
+- and py_require is even more unneeded as it's not requiring a specific
+  version of python
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Feb  5 22:16:33 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/itstool.spec b/itstool.spec
index 67ad5a4..effc4f3 100644
--- a/itstool.spec
+++ b/itstool.spec
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 Name:           itstool
 Version:        1.1.2
 Release:        0
@@ -24,11 +25,9 @@ Group:          Development/Tools/Other
 Url:            http://itstool.org
 Source:         http://files.itstool.org/itstool/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-python
-BuildRequires:  python
 Requires:       libxml2-python
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildArch:      noarch
-%py_requires
 
 %description
 ITS Tool extracts messages from XML files and outputs PO template files, then
@@ -47,9 +46,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %install
 %make_install
 
-%clean
-%{?buildroot:%__rm -rf %{buildroot}}
-
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc ChangeLog COPYING COPYING.GPL3 NEWS