diff --git a/python-zstd.changes b/python-zstd.changes
index 5da800b..9c6341a 100644
--- a/python-zstd.changes
+++ b/python-zstd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug 13 16:33:53 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Skip the version comparison tests, they are pretty useless
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 22 10:54:03 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-zstd.spec b/python-zstd.spec
index af1b465..75cd842 100644
--- a/python-zstd.spec
+++ b/python-zstd.spec
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ ZSTD Bindings for Python.
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 rm -rf zstd/
+# do not test the version matching, we don't really need exact version of
+# zstd here
+rm tests/test_version.py
+sed -i -e '/test_version/d' tests/__init__.py
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"