diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index 78c4905..b1b71cd 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 18 07:17:45 UTC 2017 - fvogt@suse.com
+
+- Only BuildRequire packages needed for testsuite if the testsuite
+  is enabled
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 13 16:35:38 UTC 2017 - opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
index 0cec11c..a2404c5 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 # Fix build on Ubuntu by disabling mercurial tests, not applied in rpm
 # based distributions
 #Patch0:         0001-Debianization-disable-running-mercurial-tests.patch
+%if %{with obs_scm_testsuite}
 BuildRequires:  bzr
 BuildRequires:  git-core
 BuildRequires:  mercurial
-BuildRequires:  python >= 2.6
 %if 0%{?fedora_version} || 0%{?rhel_version} || 0%{?centos_version}
 BuildRequires:  PyYAML
 %else
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ BuildRequires:  python-dateutil
 BuildRequires:  python-lxml
 BuildRequires:  python-mock
 BuildRequires:  subversion
+%endif
+BuildRequires:  python >= 2.6
 Requires:       bzr
 Requires:       git-core
 Requires:       mercurial