diff --git a/man.changes b/man.changes
index 703a892..fc3342c 100644
--- a/man.changes
+++ b/man.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  1 11:22:35 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- add automake as buildrequire to avoid implicit dependency
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May 26 10:32:14 CEST 2011 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/man.spec b/man.spec
index ad6d9b8..f2f0906 100644
--- a/man.spec
+++ b/man.spec
@@ -15,31 +15,36 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
-# norootforbuild
-
-
 Name:           man
-BuildRequires:  flex groff
+BuildRequires:  automake
+BuildRequires:  flex
+BuildRequires:  groff
 %if %suse_version > 1020
-BuildRequires:  gdbm-devel less libbz2-devel libzio-devel zlib-devel
+BuildRequires:  gdbm-devel
+BuildRequires:  less
+BuildRequires:  libbz2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libzio-devel
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 %else
-BuildRequires:  libzio util-linux
+BuildRequires:  libzio
+BuildRequires:  util-linux
 %endif
 %if %suse_version > 1030
-BuildRequires:  gettext-runtime gettext-tools
+BuildRequires:  gettext-runtime
+BuildRequires:  gettext-tools
 %else
-BuildRequires:  gettext gettext-devel
+BuildRequires:  gettext
+BuildRequires:  gettext-devel
 %endif
 Version:        2.5.2
-Release:        35
+Release:        0
 Summary:        A Program for Displaying man Pages
-License:        GPLv2+
+License:        GPL-2.0+
 Url:            https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db
 Group:          System/Base
 PreReq:         coreutils fillup
 Provides:       man_db
 Requires:       groff >= 1.18 less glibc-locale
-AutoReqProv:    on
 Source:         man-db-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        sysconfig.cron-man
 Source2:        cron.daily.do_mandb