diff --git a/python-urllib3.changes b/python-urllib3.changes
index 5fb840f..89313d2 100644
--- a/python-urllib3.changes
+++ b/python-urllib3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar  2 15:54:26 UTC 2016 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- change Requires on pyopenssl, pyasn1 into Recommends,
+  add ndg-httpsclient as well
+  (these are dependencies of urrlib3's pyopenssl module, which can be
+  used if native python's ssl capabilities are not good enough)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 11 13:55:13 UTC 2016 - aplanas@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-urllib3.spec b/python-urllib3.spec
index b965794..fb913b1 100644
--- a/python-urllib3.spec
+++ b/python-urllib3.spec
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ BuildRequires:  python-mock >= 1.3.0
 BuildRequires:  python-nose >= 1.3.7
 BuildRequires:  python-nose-exclude >= 0.4.1
 BuildRequires:  python-tornado >= 4.2.1
-Requires:       python-pyOpenSSL
-Requires:       python-pyasn1
+Recommends:     python-pyOpenSSL
+Recommends:     python-pyasn1
+Recommends:     python-ndg-httpsclient
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}