diff --git a/texlive.changes b/texlive.changes
index 3d69a50..94331ad 100644
--- a/texlive.changes
+++ b/texlive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec 12 17:36:08 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Replace Mesa-libGL-devel and libOSMesa-devel BuildRequires with
+  pkgconfig(gl) and pkgconfig(osmesa).
+- Drop Mesa-libglapi-devel Buildequires: not needed by texlive for
+  a while already.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  7 11:20:45 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Escape the usage of %{VERSION} when calling out to rpm.
+  RPM 4.14 has %{VERSION} defined as 'the main packages version'.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 14 16:41:11 UTC 2017 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/texlive.spec b/texlive.spec
index 1c7605c..f5c9411 100644
--- a/texlive.spec
+++ b/texlive.spec
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
   %(ls /usr/lib/rpm/brp-suse.d/* 2> /dev/null | grep -vE 'symlink|desktop') %{nil}
 
 %if ! %{defined perl_version}
-%global perl_version %(rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}' perl)
+%global perl_version %(rpm -q --qf '%%{VERSION}' perl)
 %endif
-%global perl_versnum %(rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}' perl | sed 's/\\.//g')
+%global perl_versnum %(rpm -q --qf '%%{VERSION}' perl | sed 's/\\.//g')
 
 #
 # LuaJIT -- does not build nor support all architectures
@@ -146,9 +146,8 @@ BuildRequires:  libicu-devel
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel
 %if 0%{suse_version} > 1220
-BuildRequires:  Mesa-libGL-devel
-BuildRequires:  Mesa-libglapi-devel
-BuildRequires:  libOSMesa-devel
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gl)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(osmesa)
 %else
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
 %endif