diff --git a/libdb-4_8.changes b/libdb-4_8.changes
index c45b9a2..62a845f 100644
--- a/libdb-4_8.changes
+++ b/libdb-4_8.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 23 07:30:46 UTC 2013 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- readd the provides of db-*, we're not going to switch to db 6.0
+  too eagerly: http://lwn.net/Articles/557487/
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 19 11:13:31 UTC 2013 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libdb-4_8.spec b/libdb-4_8.spec
index 0d9a551..260a9d1 100644
--- a/libdb-4_8.spec
+++ b/libdb-4_8.spec
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ This package contains the necessary runtime libraries.
 %package -n db48-utils
 Summary:        Command Line tools for Managing Berkeley DB Databases
 Group:          Productivity/Databases/Tools
+Provides:       db-utils = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      db-utils < %{version}
 
 %description -n db48-utils
 The Berkeley DB Database is a programmatic toolkit that provides
@@ -63,7 +65,9 @@ databases.
 %package -n     db48-doc
 Summary:        Documentation for Berkeley DB
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Provides:       db-doc = %{version}
 Provides:       db-utils-doc = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      db-doc < %{version}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1120
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %endif
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
 Requires:       glibc-devel
 Conflicts:      libdb-4_5-devel
-Provides:       db-devel
+Provides:       db-devel = %{version}
 
 %description    devel
 The Berkeley DB Database is a programmatic toolkit that provides