diff --git a/python-gobject.changes b/python-gobject.changes
index 4eb6522..9bb8acf 100644
--- a/python-gobject.changes
+++ b/python-gobject.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul 16 22:53:44 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Work around vendored distutils in setuptools >= 60 incorrectly
+  installing pkgconfig files into the wrong libdir
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun  9 12:51:17 UTC 2022 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python-gobject.spec b/python-gobject.spec
index adb64f5..dd15055 100644
--- a/python-gobject.spec
+++ b/python-gobject.spec
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 
 %install
 %python_install
+# Incorrectly installed by a python38-setuptools vendored distutils
+# which does not play well with the distro patched python38.
+# Later flavors installed the correct files into lib64 as well
+if [ "%{_libdir}" != "%{_prefix}/lib" -a -d %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/pkgconfig ]; then
+  rm -r  %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/pkgconfig
+fi
 
 %{python_expand # delete unwanted python scripts and their compiled cache files
 # Drop pygtkcompat layer - It's useless and we lack other stuff for it to work