diff --git a/python39.changes b/python39.changes
index 151bf78..e3fdb4d 100644
--- a/python39.changes
+++ b/python39.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 13 17:20:08 UTC 2020 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
+
+- Don't require packages which break build on SLE-15 although we really
+  don't need them (python3-python-docs-theme and
+  python3-sphinxcontrib-qthelp).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct  9 16:05:50 UTC 2020 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python39.spec b/python39.spec
index cd2e035..c69ed70 100644
--- a/python39.spec
+++ b/python39.spec
@@ -162,9 +162,11 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libtirpc)
 # Here we just run sphinx and we can use generic one, we don't need
 # the flavor variant
 BuildRequires:  python3-Sphinx < 3.0
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
 BuildRequires:  python3-python-docs-theme
 BuildRequires:  python3-sphinxcontrib-qthelp >= 1.0.2
 %endif
+%endif
 %if %{with general}
 # required for idle3 (.desktop and .appdata.xml files)
 BuildRequires:  appstream-glib