diff --git a/telepathy-glib.changes b/telepathy-glib.changes
index 4a5e459..19754f6 100644
--- a/telepathy-glib.changes
+++ b/telepathy-glib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Apr 24 10:08:24 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add work around for missing provides
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Apr  7 13:35:44 CEST 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/telepathy-glib.spec b/telepathy-glib.spec
index 8da831d..9e084f5 100644
--- a/telepathy-glib.spec
+++ b/telepathy-glib.spec
@@ -19,13 +19,15 @@
 
 Name:           telepathy-glib
 Version:        0.10.3
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 License:        LGPLv2.1
 %define debug_package_requires libtelepathy-glib0 = %{version}-%{release}
 Summary:        Libraries for adding telepathy support to applications that use glib
 Url:            http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
 Group:          Development/Languages/C and C++
 Source:         telepathy-glib-%{version}.tar.bz2
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE  work_around_pkg_config.patch - pkgconfig(pkg-config) is not provided
+Patch0:         work_around_pkg_config.patch
 BuildRequires:  dbus-1-glib-devel
 BuildRequires:  gtk-doc
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ telepathy functionality from applications that use glib.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-static
diff --git a/work_around_pkg_config.patch b/work_around_pkg_config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a13bf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/work_around_pkg_config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Index: telepathy-glib-0.10.3/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib.pc.in
+===================================================================
+--- telepathy-glib-0.10.3.orig/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib.pc.in	2010-04-06 20:03:14.000000000 +0200
++++ telepathy-glib-0.10.3/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib.pc.in	2010-04-24 12:06:13.056750562 +0200
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ includedir=@includedir@
+ Name: Telepathy-GLib
+ Description: GLib utility library for the Telepathy framework
+ Version: @VERSION@
+-Requires: pkg-config >= 0.21
+ Requires.private: dbus-glib-1 >= 0.73, glib-2.0 >= 2.20, gobject-2.0 >= 2.20, gio-2.0 >= 2.20
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -ltelepathy-glib
+ Cflags: -I${includedir}/telepathy-1.0
+Index: telepathy-glib-0.10.3/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-uninstalled.pc.in
+===================================================================
+--- telepathy-glib-0.10.3.orig/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-uninstalled.pc.in	2010-04-06 20:03:14.000000000 +0200
++++ telepathy-glib-0.10.3/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-uninstalled.pc.in	2010-04-24 12:06:23.216750652 +0200
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ abs_top_builddir=@abs_top_builddir@
+ Name: Telepathy-GLib (uninstalled copy)
+ Description: GLib utility library for the Telepathy framework
+ Version: @VERSION@
+-Requires: pkg-config >= 0.21
+ Requires.private: dbus-glib-1 >= 0.73, glib-2.0 >= 2.20, gobject-2.0 >= 2.20, gio-2.0 >= 2.20
+ Libs: ${abs_top_builddir}/telepathy-glib/libtelepathy-glib.la
+ Cflags: -I${abs_top_srcdir} -I${abs_top_builddir}