diff --git a/obs-service-recompress.changes b/obs-service-recompress.changes
index 28ef865..302b90a 100644
--- a/obs-service-recompress.changes
+++ b/obs-service-recompress.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 24 01:43:12 UTC 2022 - Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+
+- disable zstd on RHEL, the package is not available on OBS
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan 30 23:05:35 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/obs-service-recompress.spec b/obs-service-recompress.spec
index 33f9c30..8eeea6d 100644
--- a/obs-service-recompress.spec
+++ b/obs-service-recompress.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Requires:       bzip2
 Requires:       xz
 BuildArch:      noarch
 # Enable zstd on all supported distributions
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500 || 0%{?sle_version} > 150000 || 0%{?fedora_version} > 25 || 0%{?rhel} >= 6
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500 || 0%{?sle_version} > 150000 || 0%{?fedora_version} > 25
 BuildRequires:  zstd
 Requires:       zstd
 %endif