diff --git a/python-geopy.changes b/python-geopy.changes
index f6818eb..6a861df 100644
--- a/python-geopy.changes
+++ b/python-geopy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 13 16:34:02 UTC 2020 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Only buildRequire python2-* when also using python, aka python2.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 27 07:00:00 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/python-geopy.spec b/python-geopy.spec
index d7fefb5..c316520 100644
--- a/python-geopy.spec
+++ b/python-geopy.spec
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.10}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytz}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module xml}
-BuildRequires:  python2-contextlib2
-BuildRequires:  python2-statistics
+BuildRequires:  (python2-contextlib2 if python)
+BuildRequires:  (python2-statistics if python)
 # /SECTION
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 Requires:       python-geographiclib >= 1.49