diff --git a/python-httpcore.changes b/python-httpcore.changes
index 0d70474..ed52a43 100644
--- a/python-httpcore.changes
+++ b/python-httpcore.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 11 20:38:24 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.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  1 07:47:22 UTC 2022 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-httpcore.spec b/python-httpcore.spec
index abfd639..73510ab 100644
--- a/python-httpcore.spec
+++ b/python-httpcore.spec
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ Requires:       python-anyio >= 3.1.0
 Requires:       python-certifi
 Requires:       python-chardet >= 3.0
 Requires:       python-h11 >= 0.11.0
-Requires:       python-h2 >= 3.0
 Requires:       python-idna >= 2.0
 Requires:       python-rfc3986 >= 1.0
 Requires:       python-sniffio >= 1.0
+Recommends:     python-h2 >= 3.0
 BuildArch:      noarch
 # SECTION test requirements
 %if %{with test}