diff --git a/python-pyxdg.changes b/python-pyxdg.changes
index d15014d..fd70b5a 100644
--- a/python-pyxdg.changes
+++ b/python-pyxdg.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct  2 14:02:20 UTC 2017 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- drop test-icon test that fails because its standard is too old
+- drop hicolor-icon-theme requirement which was needed for that test
+
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 Fri May  5 21:47:54 UTC 2017 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-pyxdg.spec b/python-pyxdg.spec
index fd9177b..d96ed9c 100644
--- a/python-pyxdg.spec
+++ b/python-pyxdg.spec
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 %if %{with tests}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module nose}
 %endif
-BuildRequires:  hicolor-icon-theme
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  shared-mime-info
 Requires:       shared-mime-info
@@ -75,6 +74,9 @@ PyXDG is a python library to access freedesktop.org standards. Currently support
 
 %if %{with tests}
 %check
+# test-icon fails because it's testing against spec version 0.8
+# and our files moved to 0.9
+rm test/test-icon.py
 %python_expand nosetests-%{$python_bin_suffix}
 %endif