diff --git a/rpm.changes b/rpm.changes
index b2c63d9..bf7635c 100644
--- a/rpm.changes
+++ b/rpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 20 11:56:20 CET 2019 - mls@suse.de
+
+- drop python3-setuptools dependency from rpm-build, the package
+  is not part of ring-0
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 19 11:09:08 CET 2019 - mls@suse.de
 
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index 8e4862f..1e5f630 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -201,8 +201,7 @@ Requires:       xz
 Requires:       cpio
 Requires:       file
 # for pythondistdeps generator
-Requires:       python3
-Requires:       python3-setuptools
+Requires:       python3-base
 # The point of the split
 Conflicts:      rpm < 4.15.0