diff --git a/disable-systemd-sysusers.patch b/disable-systemd-sysusers.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5865c2e..0000000
--- a/disable-systemd-sysusers.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- sysusers2shadow.sh.old	2024-07-04 14:24:01.013092683 +0200
-+++ sysusers2shadow.sh	2024-07-04 14:28:06.701540250 +0200
-@@ -7,14 +7,6 @@
- 	"$@"
- }
- 
--if [ -x /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers ] && [ -e /proc/version ]; then
--
--	if [ -n "$1" ] && [ "$1" != "%3" ]; then
--		REPLACE_ARG="--replace=/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$1"
--	fi
--	# Use systemd-sysusers and let it read the input directly from stdin
--	run /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers $REPLACE_ARG -
--else
- 	# Absolute path to busybox, if found
- 	busybox=
- 	for i in /bin/busybox /usr/bin/busybox; do [ -x "$i" ] && busybox=$i; done
-@@ -126,4 +118,3 @@
- 		;;
- 		esac
- 	done
--fi
diff --git a/sysuser-tools.changes b/sysuser-tools.changes
index a697d9c..8e7d40d 100644
--- a/sysuser-tools.changes
+++ b/sysuser-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 11 11:05:25 UTC 2024 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- Directly check return value of systemd-sysusers 
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  9 06:30:23 UTC 2024 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- Drop SLE15 support and remove disable-systemd-sysusers.patch
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  9 05:59:25 UTC 2024 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- sysuser-shadow: remove systemd 238 dependency, this does not
+  work in a single RPM transaction [bsc#1234277]. Call
+  systemd-sysuser instead again without --replace.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug  7 13:42:07 UTC 2024 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/sysuser-tools.spec b/sysuser-tools.spec
index e32d459..35f8a5e 100644
--- a/sysuser-tools.spec
+++ b/sysuser-tools.spec
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ Source1:        sysusers.attr
 Source2:        sysusers-generate-pre
 Source3:        macros.sysusers
 Source4:        sysusers2shadow.sh
-Patch0:         disable-systemd-sysusers.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 Requires:       sysuser-shadow
 #!BuildIgnore:  sysuser-shadow
@@ -43,12 +42,6 @@ Group:          System/Packages
 Requires(pre):  (/usr/sbin/useradd or busybox)
 # prefer original shadow over busybox by default
 Suggests:       shadow
-# sysusers2shdow uses sysusers2shadow uses systemd-sysusers if available. And we might pass --replace to it
-# --replace only appeared in systemd 238,so we want to ensure: if we have systemd, it must be recent enough
-# the Requires(pre) statement is to ensure we get it at any moment recent enough, not only at the end of
-# transactions, otherwise upgrades might randomly fail
-Requires(pre):  (systemd >= 238 if systemd)
-Requires:       (systemd >= 238 if systemd)
 
 %description -n sysuser-shadow
 This package contians a tool, which expects as input a sysusers.d
@@ -57,9 +50,6 @@ and groups from it like systemd-sysusers would do.
 
 %prep
 %setup -qcT
-%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1500
-patch < %_sourcedir/disable-systemd-sysusers.patch %_sourcedir/sysusers2shadow.sh
-%endif
 
 %build
 
diff --git a/sysusers2shadow.sh b/sysusers2shadow.sh
index d754e7d..bea119e 100644
--- a/sysusers2shadow.sh
+++ b/sysusers2shadow.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ if [ -x /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers ] && [ -e /proc/version ]; then
 		REPLACE_ARG="--replace=/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$1"
 	fi
 	# Use systemd-sysusers and let it read the input directly from stdin
-	run /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers $REPLACE_ARG -
+	if ! run /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers $REPLACE_ARG - ; then
+		run /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers -
+	fi
 else
 	# Absolute path to busybox, if found
 	busybox=