diff --git a/python-setuptools.changes b/python-setuptools.changes
index 9d752f5..a247384 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.changes
+++ b/python-setuptools.changes
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 Sat Sep 14 02:08:41 UTC 2019 - John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
 
 - Define LANG in %check to fix openSUSE/SLE 15 testsuite
-- Only require python-futures for building if building flavour
-  python2
 
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 Wed Aug 21 12:40:01 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
diff --git a/python-setuptools.spec b/python-setuptools.spec
index 01ff341..0496617 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.spec
+++ b/python-setuptools.spec
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-virtualenv}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools >= %{version}}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel}
-%if 0%{?have_python2} && ! 0%{?skip_python2}
 BuildRequires:  python-futures
-%endif
 %else
 #!BuildIgnore:  python-pyparsing
 #!BuildIgnore:  python2-pyparsing