diff --git a/lv2.changes b/lv2.changes
index 55fadcf..875ab55 100644
--- a/lv2.changes
+++ b/lv2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 21 13:09:17 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Don't require lv2-examples by the devel project: the examples can
+  be handy, but are not needed to build other stuff.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 15 12:00:39 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/lv2.spec b/lv2.spec
index 292ff17..30f910d 100644
--- a/lv2.spec
+++ b/lv2.spec
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ requirements!
 Summary:        Development files for LV2
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
-Requires:       %{name}-examples = %{version}
 # It actually replaces the old lv2core-devel package. But since the versioning
 # went crazy (from 6.0 to 1.0.0) and nothing actually ever required it better to
 # avoid the provides/obsoletes. We may want to split this and create a new