diff --git a/man.changes b/man.changes
index 4ce9fc2..703a892 100644
--- a/man.changes
+++ b/man.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 26 10:32:14 CEST 2011 - werner@suse.de
+
+- man requires glibc-locale otherwise manconv does not work
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 28 06:38:35 UTC 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/man.spec b/man.spec
index 0ed26be..74be964 100644
--- a/man.spec
+++ b/man.spec
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Url:            https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db
 Group:          System/Base
 PreReq:         coreutils fillup
 Provides:       man_db
-Requires:       groff >= 1.18 less
+Requires:       groff >= 1.18 less glibc-locale
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Source:         man-db-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        sysconfig.cron-man