diff --git a/xdg-desktop-portal.changes b/xdg-desktop-portal.changes
index 5331ea2..e02b2b6 100644
--- a/xdg-desktop-portal.changes
+++ b/xdg-desktop-portal.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Apr 10 12:29:04 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- BuildIgnore xdg-desktop-portal: self-requires is not needed here
+  to build. Flatkpak has a (correct) dependency on
+  xdg-desktop-portal, but since we don't run flatpak during build,
+  but merely require its -devel package, we can break up this
+  chain.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 30 17:06:04 UTC 2019 - bjorn.lie@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/xdg-desktop-portal.spec b/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
index a3506b5..cd01401 100644
--- a/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
+++ b/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ Release:        0
 Summary:        A portal frontend service for Flatpak
 License:        LGPL-2.1-or-later
 Group:          System/Libraries
-Url:            https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
+URL:            https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
 Source0:        https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
-
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(flatpak)
@@ -35,6 +34,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gio-unix-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libgeoclue-2.0) >= 2.5.2
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libpipewire-0.2) >= 0.2.2
+# Break cycle: we buildrequire flatpak, and flatpak has a requires on xdg-desktop-portal
+#!BuildIgnore:  xdg-desktop-portal
 Recommends:     %{name}-lang
 
 %description