diff --git a/plexus-utils.changes b/plexus-utils.changes
index b4f3957..7bee610 100644
--- a/plexus-utils.changes
+++ b/plexus-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr  9 16:52:48 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Remove reference to the parent pom since we are not building
+  using Maven.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Mar  3 18:20:04 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/plexus-utils.spec b/plexus-utils.spec
index 211ecd2..3b61eec 100644
--- a/plexus-utils.spec
+++ b/plexus-utils.spec
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ Patch1:         0001-Follow-symlinks-in-NioFiles.copy.patch
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
-BuildRequires:  mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus:pom:)
-Requires:       mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus:pom:)
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
@@ -57,6 +55,9 @@ Javadoc for %{name}.
 cp %{SOURCE1} build.xml
 cp %{SOURCE2} .
 
+%pom_remove_parent .
+%pom_xpath_inject "pom:project" "<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>" .
+
 %build
 %{ant} jar javadoc