diff --git a/texlive.changes b/texlive.changes
index fd43aa7..253e1cc 100644
--- a/texlive.changes
+++ b/texlive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 29 14:41:24 UTC 2018 - sndirsch@suse.com
+
+- removed unneeded 'BuildRequires: xorg-x11-util-devel' (bsc#1077489)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 29 09:20:27 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
+
+- For Leap 42.3 build without biber as the perl version does not fit 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan  8 12:55:08 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/texlive.spec b/texlive.spec
index 2588867..84c1c95 100644
--- a/texlive.spec
+++ b/texlive.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define texlive_version  2017
 %define texlive_previous 2016
 %define texlive_release  20170520
-%define texlive_noarch   133
+%define texlive_noarch   136
 %define texlive_source   texlive-20170520-source
 
 %define __perl_requires		%{nil}
@@ -62,14 +62,12 @@
 #	    architectures can be supported (in theory) and the final
 #	    perl dump binary is smaller
 #
-%global		with_buildbiber 1
-%bcond_with	buildbiber
+%bcond_without	buildbiber
 
 #
 # lcdf-typetools -- is also available as the package lcdf-typetools
 #	    and therefore we may only require this external package
-%global		with_lcdf_typetools 1
-%bcond_with	lcdf_typetools
+%bcond_without	lcdf_typetools
 
 Name:           texlive
 Version:        %{texlive_version}.%{texlive_release}
@@ -156,9 +154,7 @@ BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpaper-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpoppler-devel
-%if 0%{suse_version} > 1230
 BuildRequires:  libsigsegv-devel
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
 BuildRequires:  mpfr-devel
@@ -173,7 +169,6 @@ BuildConflicts: texinfo
 BuildRequires:  unzip
 BuildRequires:  xaw3d-devel
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-devel
-BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-util-devel
 BuildRequires:  xz
 BuildRequires:  zip
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
@@ -215,9 +210,6 @@ BuildRequires:  perl(List::MoreUtils) >= 0.407
 BuildRequires:  perl(List::MoreUtils::XS)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Log::Log4perl)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Module::Build)
-%if 0%{suse_version} <= 1230
-BuildRequires:  perl(PAR::Packer)
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  perl(Package::DeprecationManager)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Params::Util)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Readonly::XS)
@@ -3686,76 +3678,6 @@ fi
 	LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
 	BIBER_DEV_TESTS=1 \
 	./Build test
-
-%if 0%{suse_version} <= 1230
-	pushd blib
-
-	(cat > biber.files)<<-'EOF'
-	../data/biber-tool.conf;lib/Biber/biber-tool.conf
-	../data/schemata/config.rnc;lib/Biber/config.rnc
-	../data/schemata/config.rng;lib/Biber/config.rng
-	../data/schemata/bcf.rnc;lib/Biber/bcf.rnc
-	../data/schemata/bcf.rng;lib/Biber/bcf.rng
-	../data/schemata/biblatexml.rnc;lib/Biber/biblatexml.rnc
-	../data/schemata/biblatexml.rng;lib/Biber/biblatexml.rng
-	../lib/Biber/LaTeX/recode_data.xml;lib/Biber/LaTeX/recode_data.xml
-	../data/bcf.xsl;lib/Biber/bcf.xsl
-	../data/latinkeys.txt;lib/Unicode/Collate/latinkeys.txt
-	%{perl_privlib}/Unicode/Collate/Locale;lib/Unicode/Collate/Locale
-	%{perl_privlib}/Unicode/Collate/CJK;lib/Unicode/Collate/CJK
-	%{perl_privlib}/Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt;lib/Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt
-	%{perl_privlib}/Unicode/Collate/keys.txt;lib/Unicode/Collate/keys.txt
-	%{perl_privlib}/PerlIO;lib/PerlIO
-	%{perl_archlib}/auto/PerlIO;lib/auto/PerlIO
-	%{perl_vendorlib}/Business/ISBN/RangeMessage.xml;lib/Business/ISBN/RangeMessage.xml
-	EOF
-	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/%{_lib}:%{_libdir}		\
-	PAR_VERBATIM=1					\
-	pp -I lib --dependent				\
-	    --compress=7				\
-	    --module=deprecate				\
-	    --module=Biber::Input::file::bibtex		\
-	    --module=Biber::Input::file::biblatexml	\
-	    --module=Biber::Input::file::ris		\
-	    --module=Biber::Input::file::zoterordfxml	\
-	    --module=Biber::Input::file::endnotexml	\
-	    --module=Biber::Output::bibtex		\
-	    --module=Biber::Output::biblatexml		\
-	    --module=Pod::Simple::TranscodeSmart	\
-	    --module=Pod::Simple::TranscodeDumb		\
-	    --module=Encode::Byte			\
-	    --module=Encode::CN				\
-	    --module=Encode::CJKConstants		\
-	    --module=Encode::EBCDIC			\
-	    --module=Encode::Encoder			\
-	    --module=Encode::GSM0338			\
-	    --module=Encode::Guess			\
-	    --module=Encode::JP				\
-	    --module=Encode::KR				\
-	    --module=Encode::MIME::Header		\
-	    --module=Encode::Symbol			\
-	    --module=Encode::TW				\
-	    --module=Encode::Unicode			\
-	    --module=Encode::Unicode::UTF7		\
-	    --module=Encode::EUCJPASCII			\
-	    --module=Encode::JIS2K			\
-	    --module=Encode::HanExtra			\
-	    --module=File::Find::Rule			\
-	    --module=IO::Socket::SSL			\
-	    --link=libbtparse.so			\
-	    --link=libxml2.so				\
-	    --link=libz.so				\
-	    --link=libxslt.so				\
-	    --link=libexslt.so				\
-	    --link=libcrypto.so				\
-	    --link=libssl.so				\
-	    --addlist=biber.files			\
-	    --cachedeps=scancache			\
-	    --output=${prefix}/bin/biber		\
-	    script/biber
-	    install -m 0644 bindoc/biber.1 ${prefix}/share/man/man1/
-	popd
-%endif
     popd
 %endif
 
@@ -3834,7 +3756,6 @@ fi
     # Biber support
     #
 %if %{with buildbiber}
-%if 0%{suse_version} > 1230
     pushd ../biblatex-biber-*
 	./Build install destdir=%{buildroot}
 	chmod    0755 %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/biber
@@ -3855,7 +3776,13 @@ fi
 	sed -ri '\@/usr/(share|bin)/.*@d' texlive.files
     popd
     mv ../biblatex-biber-*/texlive.files perl-biber.files
-%endif
+%else
+    (cat > %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/biber)<<-'EOF'
+	#!/bin/sh
+	echo No biber available due to old perl installation >&2
+	exit 1
+	EOF
+    chmod	0755 %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/biber
 %endif
 
     #
@@ -5099,10 +5026,8 @@ rm -f /var/run/texlive/run-update
 %defattr(-,root,root,755)
 
 %if %{with buildbiber}
-%if 0%{suse_version} > 1230
 %files -n perl-biber -f perl-biber.files
 %defattr(-,root,root,755)
 %endif
-%endif
 
 %changelog