diff --git a/coverage-3.7.1.tar.gz b/coverage-3.7.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index e374a36..0000000
--- a/coverage-3.7.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d1aea1c4aa61b8366d6a42dd3650622fbf9c634ed24eaf7f379c8b970e5ed44e
-size 284735
diff --git a/coverage-4.0.tar.gz b/coverage-4.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c0e882a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/coverage-4.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:b1244343e39cb2835f9c89c2d8fbcad8e4a5b4945344b434a4d8b6e9e7431390
+size 166399
diff --git a/python-coverage.changes b/python-coverage.changes
index cf54859..9eb2a42 100644
--- a/python-coverage.changes
+++ b/python-coverage.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct 16 09:23:35 UTC 2015 - bgeuken@suse.com
+
+- Pre require coreutils. This package is needed for the rm call in the pre section.
+    Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gONanE: line 3: rm: command not found
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct  7 05:03:03 UTC 2015 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- specfile:
+  * updated license
+  * updated update-alternatives
+  * README.txt -> README.rst
+
+- update to version 4.0:
+  (long list, see http://coverage.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changes.html)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul 24 21:02:54 UTC 2015 - seife+obs@b1-systems.com
 
diff --git a/python-coverage.spec b/python-coverage.spec
index 3292e11..cb12a69 100644
--- a/python-coverage.spec
+++ b/python-coverage.spec
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 
 
 Name:           python-coverage
-Version:        3.7.1
+Version:        4.0
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/%{version}
 Summary:        Code coverage measurement for Python
-License:        BSD-2-Clause and (GPL-2.0+ or MIT)
+License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/coverage/coverage-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
 #BuildRequires:  python-nose
 Requires:       python-setuptools
 Requires:       python-xml
+Requires(pre):  coreutils
 Requires(post): /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
 Requires(postun): /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
@@ -51,8 +52,14 @@ python setup.py build
 
 %install
 python setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}
-rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/coverage
-ln -s %{_bindir}/coverage-%{py_ver} %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/coverage
+
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives
+for p in coverage ; do
+    mv %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/$p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/$p-%{py_ver}
+    ln -s -f %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/$p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/$p
+    # create a dummy target for /etc/alternatives/$p
+    touch %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/$p
+done
 
 #NOTE(saschpe): The following seems to mess with the install dir, which is odd:
 #%%check
@@ -63,14 +70,9 @@ ln -s %{_bindir}/coverage-%{py_ver} %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/coverage
 #python setup.py --quiet build_ext --inplace
 #python igor.py test_with_tracer c
 
-%pre
-# Since /usr/bin/coverage became ghosted to be used with update-alternatives, we have
-# to get rid of the old binary resulting from the non-update-alternativies-ified package:
-[ -h %{_bindir}/coverage ] || rm -f %{_bindir}/coverage
-
 %post
 update-alternatives \
-    --install %{_bindir}/coverage coverage %{_bindir}/coverage-%{py_ver} 20
+    --install %{_bindir}/coverage coverage %{_bindir}/coverage-%{py_ver} 30
 
 %preun
 if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
@@ -79,10 +81,11 @@ fi
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc AUTHORS.txt CHANGES.txt README.txt
-%ghost %{_bindir}/coverage
+%doc AUTHORS.txt CHANGES.txt README.rst
+%{_bindir}/coverage
 %{_bindir}/coverage2
 %{_bindir}/coverage-%{py_ver}
+%ghost %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/coverage
 %{python_sitearch}/coverage/
 %{python_sitearch}/coverage-%{version}-py%{py_ver}.egg-info