diff --git a/python-nbconvert.changes b/python-nbconvert.changes
index d4b3127..ee9cad7 100644
--- a/python-nbconvert.changes
+++ b/python-nbconvert.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb 28 22:22:52 UTC 2021 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Add missing runtime requirement of nbclient. Keep the minversion
+- Remove empty html templates dir after test runs. This directory
+  installed with mode 700 caused other package test suites to fail.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 25 21:11:07 UTC 2021 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-nbconvert.spec b/python-nbconvert.spec
index 91b8ab8..6f2a8ef 100644
--- a/python-nbconvert.spec
+++ b/python-nbconvert.spec
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Requires:       python-jupyter-client >= 5.3.1
 Requires:       python-jupyter-core
 Requires:       python-jupyterlab-pygments
 Requires:       python-mistune >= 0.7.4
+Requires:       python-nbclient >= 0.5
 Requires:       python-nbformat >= 4.4
 Requires:       python-pandocfilters >= 1.4.1
 Requires:       python-testpath
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module jupyter-core}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module jupyterlab-pygments}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mistune >= 0.7.4}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module nbclient}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module nbclient >= 0.5}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module nbformat >= 4.4}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pandocfilters >= 1.4.1}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyppeteer}
@@ -137,8 +138,8 @@ rm docs/html/.buildinfo
 sed -i -e '/^#!\//, 1d' nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py
 sed -i -e '/^#!\//, 1d' nbconvert/filters/filter_links.py
 
-# Ignore stupd version requirements
-sed -i -e "/nbclient/s/>.*'/'/" setup.py
+# Ignore stupid maxversion requirements
+sed -i -e "/nbclient/ s/,<.*'/'/" setup.py
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -164,6 +165,9 @@ $python -B -m ipykernel.kernelspec --user
 pytest-%{$python_bin_suffix} -v -k 'not network' --pyargs nbconvert
 }
 popd
+# naughty test suite: this empty directory in the now deprecated template folder
+# is created with mode 700 during the tests and causes other packages to fail
+rmdir %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/jupyter/nbconvert/templates/html
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %license LICENSE