diff --git a/libid3tag.changes b/libid3tag.changes
index f0c2bff..1bbeb59 100644
--- a/libid3tag.changes
+++ b/libid3tag.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 11 09:35:46 UTC 2017 - alarrosa@suse.com
+
+- Add BuildRequires: zypper and use it to check for gperf version so
+  the package builds with all versions of gperf (boo#1027205)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 10 18:52:12 UTC 2017 - alarrosa@suse.com
 
 - Add fix-build-with-gperf-3.1.diff to fix build with gperf 3.1
   which now uses size_t instead of unsigned int for the len parameter
-  of the hash/lookup function.
+  of the hash/lookup function (boo#1027205)
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 16 12:18:10 UTC 2015 - mpluskal@suse.com
diff --git a/libid3tag.spec b/libid3tag.spec
index 25708c4..42e9901 100644
--- a/libid3tag.spec
+++ b/libid3tag.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ BuildRequires:  gperf
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
+BuildRequires:  zypper
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -75,9 +76,9 @@ develop applications with libid3tag.
 %patch4
 %patch5
 %patch6
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1320
+if zypper vcmp $(rpm -q --qf "%%{version}" gperf) 3.1 | grep -v "is older"; then
 %patch7 -p1
-%endif
+fi
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fiv