diff --git a/obs-service-set_version.changes b/obs-service-set_version.changes
index 07d3cae..4302866 100644
--- a/obs-service-set_version.changes
+++ b/obs-service-set_version.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jun 26 15:01:27 UTC 2012 - saschpe@suse.de
+
+- Preserve whitespaces in Version: and Requires: lines
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 14 20:01:13 GMT 2012 - aspiers@suse.com
 
diff --git a/obs-service-set_version.spec b/obs-service-set_version.spec
index ffaccc1..daebd23 100644
--- a/obs-service-set_version.spec
+++ b/obs-service-set_version.spec
@@ -16,13 +16,12 @@
 #
 
 
-
 Name:           obs-service-set_version
+Summary:        An OBS source service: Update spec file version
 License:        GPL-2.0+
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
-Summary:        An OBS source service: Update spec file version
 Version:        0.2
-Release:        1
+Release:        0
 Source:         set_version
 Source1:        set_version.service
 Requires:       sed
diff --git a/set_version b/set_version
index 215f339..3001fb8 100644
--- a/set_version
+++ b/set_version
@@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ write_files () {
     FILE=`ls -1 $i 2>/dev/null`
     [ -e "$FILE" ] || continue
 
-    sed "0,/^Version:.*/s//Version: $MYVERSION/" "$FILE" > "$MYOUTDIR/$FILE" || exit 1
+    sed "0,/^Version:\(\s*\)[^%]*/s//Version:\1$MYVERSION/" "$FILE" > "$MYOUTDIR/$FILE" || exit 1
     echo "Updated first occurrence (if any) of Version in $FILE to $MYVERSION"
     if [ "${FILE%.spec}" != "$FILE" ]; then
       # set release back to zero after version upgrade, will be increased by OBS during build
       # also keep macros in release in case of fedora/mandriva
-      sed -r -i 's,^Release:[^%]*,Release: 0,' "$MYOUTDIR/$FILE" || exit 1
+      sed -r -i "s,^Release:(\s*)[^%]*,Release:\10," "$MYOUTDIR/$FILE" || exit 1
    fi
 
     if [ "${FILE#_service:}" != "$FILE" ]; then