diff --git a/python-dnspython.changes b/python-dnspython.changes
index eff4685..1d1efd2 100644
--- a/python-dnspython.changes
+++ b/python-dnspython.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 11 19:31:34 UTC 2022 - Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
+
+- Only recommend and not require the installation of python-h2 because it is
+  seriously broken and prevents any other Python software to run correctly with -bb.
+  (See also: https://github.com/python-hyper/h2/issues/1236)
+  This also matches upstream's setup.py which lists h2 as optional
+  dependency in extra_requires.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Feb  2 18:24:23 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-dnspython.spec b/python-dnspython.spec
index 6ca5329..6a4349c 100644
--- a/python-dnspython.spec
+++ b/python-dnspython.spec
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ Requires:       python-contextvars
 # Requires despite optional: see description
 # doh
 Requires:       python-requests
-Requires:       python-h2
 Requires:       python-httpx
 Requires:       python-requests-toolbelt
 # idna
@@ -78,6 +77,8 @@ Suggests:       python-trio >= 0.14.0
 # curio
 Suggests:       python-sniffio >= 1.1
 Suggests:       python-curio >= 1.2
+# HTTP/2 support in httpx
+Recommends:     python-h2
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %python_subpackages