diff --git a/python-opentelemetry-api.changes b/python-opentelemetry-api.changes
index e4d715b..67c9eb8 100644
--- a/python-opentelemetry-api.changes
+++ b/python-opentelemetry-api.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 22 13:40:17 UTC 2021 - Benjamin Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- aiocontextvars is only needed for older Python 3.6. Python 3.7
+  and beyond provide everything in stdlib contextvars. See
+  upstreams' setup.cfg.  Use rpm boolean dependencies to pull in
+  aiocontextvars only for python36 if available (TW) or python3 if
+  python3-base < 3.7 (Leap)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 22 11:39:19 UTC 2021 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-opentelemetry-api.spec b/python-opentelemetry-api.spec
index 12aecb1..04ff446 100644
--- a/python-opentelemetry-api.spec
+++ b/python-opentelemetry-api.spec
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@ Summary:        OpenTelemetry Python API
 License:        Apache-2.0
 URL:            https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tree/master/opentelemetry-api
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/o/opentelemetry-api/opentelemetry-api-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module aiocontextvars}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
+BuildRequires:  ((python3-aiocontextvars and python3-base < 3.7) or (python36-aiocontextvars and python36-base))
 BuildArch:      noarch
 Requires:       python-setuptools
+%if %{python_version_nodots} < 37
+Requires:       python-aiocontextvars
+%endif
 # SECTION test requirements
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 # /SECTION