diff --git a/python-httpx.changes b/python-httpx.changes
index 69c6c4e..b77dbff 100644
--- a/python-httpx.changes
+++ b/python-httpx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 11 19:31:34 UTC 2022 - Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
+
+- Only recommend and not require the installation of python-h2 because it is
+  seriously broken and prevents any other Python software to run correctly with -bb.
+  (See also: https://github.com/python-hyper/h2/issues/1236)
+  This also matches upstream's setup.py which lists h2 as optional
+  dependency in extra_requires.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  1 07:01:13 UTC 2022 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-httpx.spec b/python-httpx.spec
index beb2ab3..3fbf75d 100644
--- a/python-httpx.spec
+++ b/python-httpx.spec
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ Requires:       python-certifi
 Requires:       python-chardet >= 3.0
 Requires:       python-charset-normalizer >= 2.0.6
 Requires:       python-h11 >= 0.8.0
-Requires:       python-h2 >= 3.0
 Requires:       python-hstspreload >= 2019.8.27
 Requires:       python-httpcore >= 0.14.0
 Requires:       python-idna >= 2.0
@@ -49,6 +48,7 @@ Requires:       python-rfc3986 >= 1.3
 Requires:       python-sniffio
 Requires(post): update-alternatives
 Requires(postun):update-alternatives
+Recommends:     python-h2 >= 3.0
 BuildArch:      noarch
 # SECTION test requirements
 %if %{with test}