diff --git a/python-SQLAlchemy.changes b/python-SQLAlchemy.changes
index ab0279f..ec3e8df 100644
--- a/python-SQLAlchemy.changes
+++ b/python-SQLAlchemy.changes
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Sat Mar 14 12:26:48 UTC 2020 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
     compared to an empty tuple, which can occur in a particular kind of joined
     eager loading path.   The "empty tuple" use case has been resolved so that
     the path registry is compared to a path registry in all cases; 
+- Fix build for older distributions by buildrequiring a new-enough pytest
 
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 Thu Mar 12 07:37:00 UTC 2020 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
diff --git a/python-SQLAlchemy.spec b/python-SQLAlchemy.spec
index db4de77..bfc707f 100644
--- a/python-SQLAlchemy.spec
+++ b/python-SQLAlchemy.spec
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ Provides:       python-sqlalchemy = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      python-sqlalchemy < %{version}
 # SECTION test requirements
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 4.4.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-xdist}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 # /SECTION
 %ifpython2
 Obsoletes:      %{oldpython}-sqlalchemy < %{version}