diff --git a/lirc.changes b/lirc.changes
index 918c486..dba2cc6 100644
--- a/lirc.changes
+++ b/lirc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul 31 17:59:10 UTC 2015 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Do not hard depend on systemd - all macro uses support soft
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul 31 09:51:51 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/lirc.spec b/lirc.spec
index 18542ee..3c6b46d 100644
--- a/lirc.spec
+++ b/lirc.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ Requires:       udev
 Recommends:     lirc-remotes
 Suggests:       lirc-kmp
 Supplements:    lirc-kmp
-%{?systemd_requires}
 %ifnarch s390 s390x
 # i2c-dev.h now moved to that package
 BuildRequires:  i2c-tools