diff --git a/kactivitymanagerd.changes b/kactivitymanagerd.changes
index 75251f8..e1d21c0 100644
--- a/kactivitymanagerd.changes
+++ b/kactivitymanagerd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 30 08:33:52 UTC 2018 - wbauer@tmo.at
+
+- Require libQt5Sql5-sqlite, apparently it crashes without it, and
+  even if not it would probably not work properly (boo#1078173)
+
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 Mon Jan 15 15:54:02 CET 2018 - fabian@ritter-vogt.de
 
diff --git a/kactivitymanagerd.spec b/kactivitymanagerd.spec
index b87ee12..945ec0c 100644
--- a/kactivitymanagerd.spec
+++ b/kactivitymanagerd.spec
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ BuildRequires:  cmake(Qt5Widgets) >= 5.3.0
 Recommends:     %{name}-imports = %{version}
 Recommends:     %{name}-lang
 # for kactivitymanagerd_plugin_sqlite.so
-Recommends:     libQt5Sql5-sqlite
+Requires:       libQt5Sql5-sqlite
 Provides:       kactivities4 = %{version}
 Provides:       kactivities5 = 5.20.0
 Obsoletes:      kactivities4 < %{version}