diff --git a/postgresql.changes b/postgresql.changes
index cecd87b..a0bd80c 100644
--- a/postgresql.changes
+++ b/postgresql.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 13 18:10:54 UTC 2017 - mrueckert@suse.de
+
+- add provides for all the pkgconfig() provides you also find in
+  the postgresqlXY-devel packages. then we automatically will pull
+  postgresql-devel which in turn will pull our default
+  postgresqlXY-devel package. (boo#1071971)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Dec  6 10:32:06 UTC 2017 - bruno@ioda-net.ch
 
diff --git a/postgresql.spec b/postgresql.spec
index c1895ff..ed6ce24 100644
--- a/postgresql.spec
+++ b/postgresql.spec
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ Documentation for the modules contained in this package can be found in
 Summary:        PostgreSQL development header files and libraries
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Provides:       postgresql-devel-noarch = %version-%release
+Provides:       pkgconfig(libecpg) = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides:       pkgconfig(libecpg_compat) = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides:       pkgconfig(libpgtypes) = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides:       pkgconfig(libpq) = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires:       postgresql-devel-implementation
 Recommends:     %defaultpackage-devel