diff --git a/python-distributed.changes b/python-distributed.changes
index 0989140..5214ef0 100644
--- a/python-distributed.changes
+++ b/python-distributed.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 15 11:56:35 UTC 2021 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Unskip python36 build. Just skip installing optional 
+  python36-sparse for the tests. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb 12 14:30:57 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-distributed.spec b/python-distributed.spec
index d2c0587..ff35874 100644
--- a/python-distributed.spec
+++ b/python-distributed.spec
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 %bcond_with test
 %endif
 %define skip_python2 1
-%define skip_python36 1
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-distributed%{psuffix}
 Version:        2021.2.0
@@ -76,12 +75,12 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-xdist}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module sortedcontainers}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module sparse}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tblib}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module toolz >= 0.8.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tornado >= 5 if %python-base < 3.8}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tornado >= 6.0.3 if %python-base >= 3.8}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module zict >= 0.1.3}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module sparse if (%python-base without python36-base)}
 %endif
 %python_subpackages