diff --git a/texlive.changes b/texlive.changes
index 31633ca..f966181 100644
--- a/texlive.changes
+++ b/texlive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 25 09:36:56 UTC 2022 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Use the found perl version for requiring perl-base in perl-biber (boo#1199795) 
+
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 Tue Apr  5 13:38:47 UTC 2022 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/texlive.spec b/texlive.spec
index f8b09b7..ebceaa5 100644
--- a/texlive.spec
+++ b/texlive.spec
@@ -3774,7 +3774,7 @@ License:        LPPL-1.0
 Group:          Productivity/Publishing/TeX/Utilities
 URL:            http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/
 Recommends:     perl(Readonly::XS)
-Requires:       perl-base >= 5.26.1
+Requires:       perl-base = %{perl_version}
 Requires:       perl(Business::ISBN) >= 3.005
 Requires:       perl(Business::ISMN)
 Requires:       perl(Business::ISSN)