diff --git a/mdadm.changes b/mdadm.changes
index f11b995..4101d9b 100644
--- a/mdadm.changes
+++ b/mdadm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 31 11:43:43 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Do not BuildRequire systemd: it conflicts with systemd-mini,
+  pulled in by systemd-mini-devel (due to BuildRequires:
+  pkgconfig(systemd)). The reason systemd was added as a
+  buildrequires was for 'something' to onw
+  /usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/; systemd-mini does that also
+  for us.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug  3 06:25:56 UTC 2015 - nfbrown@suse.com
 
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index 821576c..a06a7b6 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ BuildRequires:  binutils-devel
 BuildRequires:  groff
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  sgmltool
-BuildRequires:  systemd
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libudev)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(systemd)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)