diff --git a/perl-MailTools.changes b/perl-MailTools.changes
index a367a16..e683012 100644
--- a/perl-MailTools.changes
+++ b/perl-MailTools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:45 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct  5 15:10:39 CEST 2010 - anicka@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/perl-MailTools.spec b/perl-MailTools.spec
index a3bd09a..5b0d5b4 100644
--- a/perl-MailTools.spec
+++ b/perl-MailTools.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 Summary:        a set of perl modules related to mail applications
 Source:         MailTools-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 a set of perl modules related to mail applications