diff --git a/MozillaThunderbird.changes b/MozillaThunderbird.changes
index c1b136d..03e3ce7 100644
--- a/MozillaThunderbird.changes
+++ b/MozillaThunderbird.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  8 14:13:49 UTC 2020 - Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org>
+
+- remove python2 dependencies for Leap 15 and TW
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct  7 07:02:03 UTC 2020 - Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org>
 
diff --git a/MozillaThunderbird.spec b/MozillaThunderbird.spec
index b49b1cf..961d739 100644
--- a/MozillaThunderbird.spec
+++ b/MozillaThunderbird.spec
@@ -90,13 +90,12 @@ BuildRequires:  mozilla-nspr-devel >= 4.25.1
 BuildRequires:  mozilla-nss-devel >= 3.53.1
 BuildRequires:  nasm >= 2.14
 BuildRequires:  nodejs10 >= 10.21.0
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
 %if 0%{?sle_version} >= 120000 && 0%{?sle_version} < 150000
 BuildRequires:  python-libxml2
 BuildRequires:  python36
 %else
-BuildRequires:  python2-xml
 BuildRequires:  python3 >= 3.5
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 %endif
 BuildRequires:  rust >= 1.41
 BuildRequires:  rust-cbindgen >= 0.14.1