diff --git a/python-h5py.changes b/python-h5py.changes
index 125351d..1b87ec2 100644
--- a/python-h5py.changes
+++ b/python-h5py.changes
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Fri Nov 15 19:11:37 UTC 2024 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
     automatically to recreate this (PR 2479, PR 2480).
   * Various PRs modernising & cleaning up old Cython code, see the
     3.12 milestone on Github for details.
+- Don't %requires_eq libhdf5{%my_suffix}: not a package but a
+  capability of e.g. libhdf5-200 -- boo#1196682
 
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 Mon Jul  8 06:51:52 UTC 2024 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
diff --git a/python-h5py.spec b/python-h5py.spec
index 17df183..00bedba 100644
--- a/python-h5py.spec
+++ b/python-h5py.spec
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  hdf5%{?my_suffix}-devel >= 1.10.6
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
-%requires_eq    hdf5%{?my_suffix}
-%requires_eq    libhdf5%{?my_suffix}
+# Work around requires_eq not finding the capability libhdf5:
+%(rpm -q --requires hdf5%{?my_suffix}-devel | sed -n '/libhdf5.*=/ s/^/Requires: / p')
 Requires:       python-numpy >= 1.19.3
 %if %{with mpi}
 BuildRequires:  %{mpi_flavor}%{mpi_vers}-devel