diff --git a/python-wheel.changes b/python-wheel.changes
index 5a9681d..1e8dde7 100644
--- a/python-wheel.changes
+++ b/python-wheel.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 14 08:59:02 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Reduce build requires and recommends to what is really needed
+  (hint: almost nothing)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 15 20:46:24 UTC 2019 - Jonathan Harker <jharker@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-wheel.spec b/python-wheel.spec
index 0aa81b3..169322f 100644
--- a/python-wheel.spec
+++ b/python-wheel.spec
@@ -25,25 +25,14 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/pypa/wheel
 Source:         https://github.com/pypa/wheel/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/wheel-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.0.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 Requires:       python-setuptools
 Requires(post): update-alternatives
 Requires(postun): update-alternatives
-Recommends:     python-dirspec
-Recommends:     python-ed25519ll
-Recommends:     python-keyring
-Recommends:     python-keyrings.alt
-Recommends:     python-pyxdg
 BuildArch:      noarch
-# SECTION test
-# Not compatible currently, see https://github.com/jaraco/keyrings.alt/issues/20
-#BuildRequires:  %%{python_module keyrings.alt}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module keyring}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyxdg}
-# /SECTION
 %python_subpackages
 
 %description
@@ -57,23 +46,9 @@ step (simply extracting the file onto sys.path), and the unpacked archive
 preserves enough information to "Spread" (copy data and scripts to their
 final locations) at any later time.
 
-The wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools
-(requires distribute >= 0.6.34). Wheel files can be
-installed with a newer pip from https://github.com/pypa/pip
-or with wheel's own command line utility.
-
-The wheel documentation is at http://wheel.rtfd.org/. The
-file format is documented in PEP 427
-(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/).
-
-The reference implementation is at http://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/
-
 %prep
 %setup -q -n wheel-%{version}
-# Remove addopts as it requires pytest-cov.  The reported coverage is not
-# nearly near 100%, and setup.cfg doesnt provide a minimum acceptable
-# coverage percentage, so coverage is not a metric which can be used
-# by automated QA to determine acceptance of the package.
+# Remove addopts as it requires pytest-cov
 sed -i '/addopts = /d' setup.cfg
 
 %build
@@ -86,9 +61,8 @@ sed -i '/addopts = /d' setup.cfg
 
 %check
 export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
-%{python_expand rm -rf _build.python2 _build.python3
-PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib} py.test-%{$python_version}
-rm -rf %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/wheel/test/headers.dist}
+export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+%pytest
 
 %post
 %python_install_alternative wheel