diff --git a/perl-Text-CharWidth.changes b/perl-Text-CharWidth.changes
index 7cc8ff8..7c872ba 100644
--- a/perl-Text-CharWidth.changes
+++ b/perl-Text-CharWidth.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:39:09 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Sun Jan 10 15:43:32 CET 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/perl-Text-CharWidth.spec b/perl-Text-CharWidth.spec
index 41571fd..037fc33 100644
--- a/perl-Text-CharWidth.spec
+++ b/perl-Text-CharWidth.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Release:        74
 Url:            http://search.cpan.org/~kubota/Text-CharWidth-0.04/CharWidth.pm
 Source0:        http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KU/KUBOTA/Text-CharWidth-0.04.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 Get number of occupied columns of a string on terminal