diff --git a/transfig.changes b/transfig.changes
index 7be3132..871f8ca 100644
--- a/transfig.changes
+++ b/transfig.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 16 07:40:07 UTC 2021 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Skip requirement of texlive-epstopdf as SLE-12 does not have that 
+
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 Wed Aug 11 12:40:48 UTC 2021 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/transfig.spec b/transfig.spec
index cbf2ce1a..addb84a 100644
--- a/transfig.spec
+++ b/transfig.spec
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ Provides:       transfig.3.2.3d
 Requires:       ghostscript-fonts-std
 Requires:       ghostscript-library
 Requires:       netpbm
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1315
 Requires:       texlive-epstopdf
+%endif
 Version:        3.2.8a
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Graphic Converter