diff --git a/python-mechanize-setup.cfg.patch b/python-mechanize-setup.cfg.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b790c85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-mechanize-setup.cfg.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From a14ecec7abcd8da9b55d28a6d9ebfd89ce635615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@lwhsu.org>
+Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:03:01 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] setup.cfg: Move packages def to options section
+
+Fix packaging with older setuptools.
+---
+ setup.cfg | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+Index: mechanize-0.4.8/setup.cfg
+===================================================================
+--- mechanize-0.4.8.orig/setup.cfg
++++ mechanize-0.4.8/setup.cfg
+@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ license = BSD
+ description = Stateful, programmatic web browsing
+ long_description = file: README.rst
+ url = https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize
+-packages = mechanize
+ classifiers = 
+ 	Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
+ 	Intended Audience :: Developers
+@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ classifiers =
+ 	Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
+ 
+ [options]
++packages = mechanize
+ zip_safe = True
+ install_requires = html5lib>=0.999999999
+ 
diff --git a/python-mechanize.changes b/python-mechanize.changes
index d745fc3..0208963 100644
--- a/python-mechanize.changes
+++ b/python-mechanize.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jul 31 21:25:20 UTC 2022 - ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
+
+- Add python-mechanize-setup.cfg.patch to fix mechanize not
+  found during build. (boo#1202003)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jul 24 09:09:01 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-mechanize.spec b/python-mechanize.spec
index 5177764..7cb75a6 100644
--- a/python-mechanize.spec
+++ b/python-mechanize.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Summary:        Stateful programmatic web browsing
 License:        BSD-3-Clause AND (BSD-3-Clause OR ZPL-2.1)
 URL:            https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/m/mechanize/%{modname}-%{version}.tar.gz
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM python-mechanize-setup.cfg.patch - setup.cfg: Move packages def to options section
+Patch1:         %{name}-setup.cfg.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Twisted}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module html5lib}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ Johnny Lee (MSIE Cookie support) and last but not least Andy Lester
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{modname}-%{version}
+%patch1 -p1
 sed -i -e '/^#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/d' %{modname}/_{entities,equiv,form_controls}.py
 sed -i "1d" examples/forms/{echo.cgi,example.py,simple.py} # Fix doc-file-dependency