diff --git a/makedepend.changes b/makedepend.changes
index 8248e85..62d0405 100644
--- a/makedepend.changes
+++ b/makedepend.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 31 12:42:13 UTC 2023 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
+
+- renamed 0001-Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch to
+  u_Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch, i.e. patch is to be upstreamed
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 31 09:27:16 UTC 2023 - Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com>
+
+- Add patch to avoid the xproto (+pkgconfig) dependency,
+  useful for boo#1207721:
+  * 0001-Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec 20 12:09:34 UTC 2022 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/makedepend.spec b/makedepend.spec
index 216c982..52b302e 100644
--- a/makedepend.spec
+++ b/makedepend.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package makedepend
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -24,8 +24,12 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
 URL:            https://xorg.freedesktop.org/
 Source0:        http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xproto) >= 7.0.17
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/makedepend/-/merge_requests/10
+Patch1:         u_Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch
+# For autogen.sh
+BuildRequires:  autoconf
+BuildRequires:  automake
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xorg-macros) >= 1.8
 # This was part of the xorg-x11-util-devel package up to version 7.6
 Conflicts:      xorg-x11-util-devel <= 7.6
 
@@ -42,6 +46,7 @@ has changed.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
+NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 %configure
 %make_build
 
diff --git a/u_Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch b/u_Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53f5636
--- /dev/null
+++ b/u_Avoid-depending-on-xproto.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+From 1c75b54c0f05da2a979347712eae6f07d9d2ab1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.de>
+Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:22:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Avoid depending on xproto
+
+makedepend is rather early in the distro bootstrap chain, so it shouldn't pull
+in anything it doesn't really need.
+
+xproto is only pulled in for two macros which we can just as easily provide
+ourselves.
+---
+ configure.ac |  3 ---
+ def.h        | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
+ main.c       |  1 +
+ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+Index: makedepend-1.0.8/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- makedepend-1.0.8.orig/configure.ac
++++ makedepend-1.0.8/configure.ac
+@@ -26,8 +26,5 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([rename fchmod])
+ dnl Use 64-bit file operations on 32-bit systems that support them
+ AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
+ 
+-dnl Check for pkg-config packages
+-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X, [xproto >= 7.0.17])
+-
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+ AC_OUTPUT
+Index: makedepend-1.0.8/def.h
+===================================================================
+--- makedepend-1.0.8.orig/def.h
++++ makedepend-1.0.8/def.h
+@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ in this Software without prior written a
+ # include "makedepend-config.h"
+ #endif
+ 
+-#include <X11/Xos.h>
+-#include <X11/Xfuncproto.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+@@ -38,6 +36,25 @@ in this Software without prior written a
+ #include <fcntl.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ 
++#ifndef _X_ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF
++#if __has_attribute(__format__) \
++    || defined(__GNUC__) && ((__GNUC__ * 100 + __GNUC_MINOR__) >= 203)
++# define _X_ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(x,y) __attribute__((__format__(__printf__,x,y)))
++#else /* not gcc >= 2.3 */
++# define _X_ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(x,y)
++#endif
++#endif
++
++#ifndef _X_NORETURN
++#if __has_attribute(noreturn) \
++    || (defined(__GNUC__) && ((__GNUC__ * 100 + __GNUC_MINOR__) >= 205)) \
++    || (defined(__SUNPRO_C) && (__SUNPRO_C >= 0x590))
++# define _X_NORETURN __attribute((noreturn))
++#else
++# define _X_NORETURN
++#endif /* GNUC  */
++#endif
++
+ #define MAXDEFINES	512
+ #define MAXFILES	2048
+ #define MAXINCFILES	128	/* "-include" files */
+Index: makedepend-1.0.8/main.c
+===================================================================
+--- makedepend-1.0.8.orig/main.c
++++ makedepend-1.0.8/main.c
+@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ in this Software without prior written a
+ #endif
+ 
+ #include <stdarg.h>
++#include <unistd.h>
+ 
+ #ifdef __sun
+ # include <sys/utsname.h>