diff --git a/python-xarray.changes b/python-xarray.changes
index d2f654d..4d15f52 100644
--- a/python-xarray.changes
+++ b/python-xarray.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov 24 13:08:38 UTC 2024 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix@sebix.at>
+
+- disable the 'parallel' subpackage because dask is unavailable 3.12, which is because numba is unavailable on 3.13
+  https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1225144
+  https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9760
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep  4 09:11:37 UTC 2024 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-xarray.spec b/python-xarray.spec
index 04e28e5..5410d04 100644
--- a/python-xarray.spec
+++ b/python-xarray.spec
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Requires:       python-xarray = %{version}
 Requires:       python-xarray-accel = %{version}
 Requires:       python-xarray-dev = %{version}
 Requires:       python-xarray-io = %{version}
-Requires:       python-xarray-parallel = %{version}
+#Requires:       python-xarray-parallel = %%{version}
 Requires:       python-xarray-viz = %{version}
 
 %description complete
@@ -131,14 +131,15 @@ Requires:       python-zarr
 %description io
 The [io] extra for xarray, N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
 
-%package parallel
-Summary:        The python xarray[parallel] extra
-Requires:       python-dask-complete
-Requires:       python-xarray = %{version}
 
-%description parallel
-The [parallel] extra for xarray, N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
 
+#%%package parallel
+#Summary:        The python xarray[parallel] extra
+#Requires:       python-dask-complete
+#Requires:       python-xarray = %%{version}
+#
+#%description parallel
+#The [parallel] extra for xarray, N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
 %package viz
 Summary:        The python xarray[viz] extra
 Requires:       python-matplotlib
@@ -212,9 +213,9 @@ donttest="$donttest or (TestNetCDF4 and test_compression_encoding and (szip or z
 %doc README.md
 %license LICENSE
 
-%files %{python_files parallel}
-%doc README.md
-%license LICENSE
+#%%files %%{python_files parallel}
+#%doc README.md
+#%%license LICENSE
 
 %files %{python_files viz}
 %doc README.md