diff --git a/perl-DBI.changes b/perl-DBI.changes
index 09adb50..da2cc14 100644
--- a/perl-DBI.changes
+++ b/perl-DBI.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec  1 13:31:55 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- switch to perl_requires macro
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov 30 13:10:56 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- do not use recommends on fedora
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 30 16:05:23 CEST 2010 - anicka@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/perl-DBI.spec b/perl-DBI.spec
index 5775bb1..7dbfc99 100644
--- a/perl-DBI.spec
+++ b/perl-DBI.spec
@@ -30,10 +30,9 @@ Url:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/
 #Source:         http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/DBI-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source:         %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+%{perl_requires}
 BuildRequires:  perl
-%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1120
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  perl(Test::Simple) >= 0.90
 # 
 %if %{with opt}
@@ -45,13 +44,14 @@ BuildRequires:  perl(RPC::PlServer) >= 0.2001
 BuildRequires:  perl(SQL::Statement) >= 1.28
 %endif
 #
-Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 0
 Recommends:     perl(Clone) >= 0.31
 Recommends:     perl(DB_File)
 Recommends:     perl(MLDBM)
 Recommends:     perl(Net::Daemon)
 Recommends:     perl(RPC::PlServer) >= 0.2001
 Recommends:     perl(SQL::Statement) >= 1.28
+%endif
 
 %description
 The DBI is a database access module for the Perl programming language.