diff --git a/python-tablib.changes b/python-tablib.changes
index 131157e..0296dcd 100644
--- a/python-tablib.changes
+++ b/python-tablib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 20 20:14:38 UTC 2025 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Fix dependencies: None of the supported packages are hard
+  requirements.
+- Remove xlwt from build set: Not maintained for 7+ years
+  * Add tablib-tests-noxls.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 18 11:31:03 UTC 2025 - ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python-tablib.spec b/python-tablib.spec
index 6d3bb6b..005db94 100644
--- a/python-tablib.spec
+++ b/python-tablib.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-tablib
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2024 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2025 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Summary:        Format agnostic tabular data library (XLS, JSON, YAML, CSV)
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/jazzband/tablib
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/t/tablib/tablib-%{version}.tar.gz
+# PATCH-FEATURE-OPENSUSE tablib-tests-noxls.patch -- disable tests that require xlwt, code@bnavigator.de
+Patch0:         tablib-tests-noxls.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module PyYAML}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.9}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module odfpy}
@@ -40,15 +42,14 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tabulate}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module xlrd}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module xlwt}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
-Requires:       python-PyYAML
-Requires:       python-odfpy
-Requires:       python-openpyxl >= 2.6.0
-Requires:       python-tabulate
-Requires:       python-xlrd
-Requires:       python-xlwt
+Suggests:       python-PyYAML
+Suggests:       python-odfpy
+Suggests:       python-openpyxl >= 2.6.0
+Suggests:       python-tabulate
+Suggests:       python-xlrd
+Suggests:       python-xlwt
 Suggests:       python-pandas
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %python_subpackages
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ Output formats supported:
 - CSV (Sets)
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n tablib-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n tablib-%{version}
 # Remove shebang lines from non-executable scripts:
 find src -name "*.py" | xargs sed -i '1 { /^#!/ d }'
 sed -i '/addopts/ d' pytest.ini
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ sed -i '/addopts/ d' pytest.ini
 
 %check
 # v3.2.1: test_cli_export_github fails on Leap 15.3 & .4 due to minor differences in output
-%pytest -k 'not test_cli_export_github'
+donttest="test_cli_export_github"
+%pytest -k "not ($donttest)"
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %license LICENSE
diff --git a/tablib-tests-noxls.patch b/tablib-tests-noxls.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..880a918
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tablib-tests-noxls.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff -ur tablib-3.7.0/tests/test_tablib.py tablib-3.7.0.patched/tests/test_tablib.py
+--- tablib-3.7.0/tests/test_tablib.py	2024-10-08 15:11:38.000000000 +0200
++++ tablib-3.7.0.patched/tests/test_tablib.py	2025-01-20 21:38:50.331022734 +0100
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
+ import xlrd
+ from odf import opendocument, table
+ from openpyxl.reader.excel import load_workbook
++import pytest
+ 
+ import tablib
+ from tablib.core import Row, detect_format
+@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@
+ 
+     def _test_export_data_in_all_formats(self, dataset, exclude=()):
+         all_formats = [
+-            'json', 'yaml', 'csv', 'tsv', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'ods', 'html', 'jira',
++            'json', 'yaml', 'csv', 'tsv', 'xlsx', 'ods', 'html', 'jira',
+             'latex', 'df', 'rst',
+         ]
+         for format_ in all_formats:
+@@ -400,9 +401,6 @@
+         """Test auto format detection."""
+         # html, jira, latex, rst are export only.
+ 
+-        _xls = self.founders.export('xls')
+-        self.assertEqual(tablib.detect_format(_xls), 'xls')
+-
+         _xlsx = self.founders.export('xlsx')
+         self.assertEqual(tablib.detect_format(_xlsx), 'xlsx')
+ 
+@@ -1280,6 +1278,7 @@
+         self.assertEqual(cells[2].getAttribute('datevalue'), '2019-10-04T12:30:08')
+ 
+ 
++@pytest.mark.skip("No XLS support without xlwt")
+ class XLSTests(BaseTestCase):
+     def test_xls_format_detect(self):
+         """Test the XLS format detection."""