diff --git a/python-eventlet.changes b/python-eventlet.changes
index 6f01dce..e55565b 100644
--- a/python-eventlet.changes
+++ b/python-eventlet.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 21 12:35:13 UTC 2019 - Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
+
+- we don't want to obsolete python-doc: rather python-eventlet-doc,
+  which depends on python-eventlet, should get removed on update,
+  anyway.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun  7 12:14:00 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-eventlet.spec b/python-eventlet.spec
index a649e9b..b4bc4bf 100644
--- a/python-eventlet.spec
+++ b/python-eventlet.spec
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ Requires:       python-dnspython >= 1.15.0
 Requires:       python-greenlet >= 0.3
 Requires:       python-monotonic >= 1.4
 Requires:       python-six >= 1.10.0
-Obsoletes:      python-doc
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %if %{python_version_nodots} < 34
 Requires:       python-enum34