diff --git a/PREPARE_PACKAGE b/PREPARE_PACKAGE
deleted file mode 100644
index 510e586..0000000
--- a/PREPARE_PACKAGE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-test -f package-translations.spec || { "cwd must contain package-translations.spec"; exit 1; }
-PWD=$(pwd)
-if test -d "$MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT"; then
-  echo "Updating $MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT"
-  cd $MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT && git pull && cd $PWD
-else
-  echo "No \$MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT set, will checkout temporarly"
-  git clone https://github.com/opensuse/packages-i18n.git
-  export MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT=$PWD/packages-i18n
-fi
-
-rm -rf mo
-tar xf package-translations.tar.bz2
-mv mo mo.old
-mkdir mo
-for file in $MY_PKG_I18N_CHECKOUT/*/po; do
-  lang=`echo $file | sed -e "s,/po,,; s,.*/,,"`
-  echo $file $lang
-  msgcat --use-first $file/*.po | msgfmt -o mo/package-translations-$lang.mo -
-done
-if diff -ru mo.old mo; then
-  echo "no changes"
-  rm -rf mo mo.old
-  exit 1
-else
-  rm -f package-translations.tar.bz2
-  tar cfj package-translations.tar.bz2 mo
-  rm -rf mo mo.old
-fi
-
-NAME=package-translations
-{
-echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
-timestamp=$(LC_ALL=POSIX TZ=UTC date)
-timestamp2=$(LC_ALL=POSIX TZ=UTC date +"%Y-%m-%d")
-user=$(osc whois | cut -d\" -f3)
-user=$(echo $user)
-echo "$timestamp - $user"
-echo
-echo "- automated update on $timestamp2"
-echo
-cat $NAME.changes
-} > $NAME.changes.new
-mv $NAME.changes.new $NAME.changes
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/_service b/_service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3c51d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_service
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<services>
+	<service name="tar_scm" mode="disabled">
+		<param name="filename">package-translations</param>
+		<param name="versionformat">%cd.%h</param>
+		<!-- it's tumbleweed -->
+		<param name="versionprefix">84.87</param>
+		<param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/packages-i18n.git</param>
+		<param name="scm">git</param>
+		<param name="changesgenerate">enable</param>
+	</service>
+	<service name="recompress" mode="disabled">
+		<param name="file">*.tar</param>
+		<param name="compression">xz</param>
+	</service>
+	<service name="set_version" mode="disabled"/>
+</services>
diff --git a/_servicedata b/_servicedata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c61cabb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_servicedata
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<servicedata>
+<service name="tar_scm">
+                <param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/packages-i18n.git</param>
+              <param name="changesrevision">7ea0b2cd09d6916a0b5e25c508b445ba28fcb65d</param></service></servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package-translations-84.87.20170709.7ea0b2c.tar.xz b/package-translations-84.87.20170709.7ea0b2c.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3eba549
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package-translations-84.87.20170709.7ea0b2c.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:4f90a63b2522f4f93037863159ec9559eaa109b53f08a021cd12a290f2aee438
+size 38472124
diff --git a/package-translations.changes b/package-translations.changes
index 8351fe1..0e1c296 100644
--- a/package-translations.changes
+++ b/package-translations.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 10 14:38:56 UTC 2017 - lnussel@suse.de
+
+- switch to using a _service file
+- Update to version 84.87.20170709.7ea0b2c:
+  * Translated using Weblate (German)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 20 19:47:52 UTC 2017 - alex239@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/package-translations.spec b/package-translations.spec
index cee9c55..f5f4271 100644
--- a/package-translations.spec
+++ b/package-translations.spec
@@ -17,15 +17,14 @@
 
 
 Name:           package-translations
-Version:        1.0
+Version:        84.87.20170709.7ea0b2c
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Summary and Descriptions Translations
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Group:          System/GUI/Other
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-Source0:        %{name}.tar.bz2
+Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        translate_packages.pl
-Source99:       PREPARE_PACKAGE
 BuildArch:      noarch
 Requires:       perl-gettext
 Url:            https://github.com/openSUSE/packages-i18n/
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ This package provides translations for our packages. You don't want to install t
 package on your system, it's only useful when you create openSUSE media.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -c %name
+%setup -q
 
 %build
 
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ package on your system, it's only useful when you create openSUSE media.
 target_dir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES
 mkdir -p $target_dir
 for lang in %build_languages; do
-msgcat --use-first package-translations/$lang/po/*.po | msgfmt -o $target_dir/package-translations-$lang.mo -
+  msgcat --use-first $lang/po/*.po | msgfmt -o $target_dir/package-translations-$lang.mo -
 done
 #cp -a mo/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES
 install -D -m 755 %{SOURCE1} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/translate_packages.pl
diff --git a/package-translations.tar.bz2 b/package-translations.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index b947be6..0000000
--- a/package-translations.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:959396a93e8600d8c65c8354748c471ceab8891b12330fc866a2284d665e18d6
-size 45719473