diff --git a/sane-backends.changes b/sane-backends.changes
index 89f8f97..fc9126f 100644
--- a/sane-backends.changes
+++ b/sane-backends.changes
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@ Wed Apr 28 11:27:50 CEST 2010 - jsmeix@suse.de
   device access permissions for scanners to the currently logged
   in "desktop" user. Therefore all HAL related stuff was removed
   (see Novell/Suse Bugzilla bnc#593946).
-- Removed /usr/lib[64]/libsane.so and /usr/lib[64]/libsane.la
-  which are not needed by scanning frontends which are provided
-  by openSUSE because /usr/bin/scanimage, /usr/bin/xsane,
-  and /usr/bin/skanlite link with /usr/libi[64]/libsane.so.1
+- Removed /usr/lib[64]/libsane.la
   (see Novell/Suse Bugzilla bnc#592143).
 
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diff --git a/sane-backends.spec b/sane-backends.spec
index 9102f76..6a2aa77 100644
--- a/sane-backends.spec
+++ b/sane-backends.spec
@@ -399,13 +399,13 @@ make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
 rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/sane/libsane-*.so
 rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/sane/libsane-*.la
 # Because of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592143 for openSUSE 11.3
-# even those files for the dll meta-backend /usr/lib/libsane.so and /usr/lib/libsane.la
-# are removed regardless that it is unknown how whatever third-party scanning frontend
+# even the /usr/lib/libsane.la file for the dll meta-backend is removed
+# regardless that it is unknown how whatever third-party scanning frontend
 # may like to link with SANE (i.e. with the dll meta-backend).
-# At least the frontends which are provided by openSUSE /usr/bin/scanimage, /usr/bin/xsane,
-# and /usr/bin/skanlite link with /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 so that those frontends
-# neither need /usr/lib/libsane.so nor /usr/lib/libsane.la:
-rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libsane.so
+# The frontends which are provided by openSUSE /usr/bin/scanimage,
+# /usr/bin/xsane, and /usr/bin/skanlite do not need it.
+# The /usr/lib/libsane.so link for the dll meta-backend is kept because it is needed
+# during build-time by other packages which need sane-backends to build.
 rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libsane.la
 # Disable all backends in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to avoid problems when backends are active by default:
 perl -pi -e 's/^([^#].*)$/#$1/' %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sane.d/dll.conf