diff --git a/ant.changes b/ant.changes
index ccdf224..0f08b9d 100644
--- a/ant.changes
+++ b/ant.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  1 12:54:47 UTC 2012 - mvyskocil@suse.cz
+
+- revert the Recommends to fix a lot of build fails 
+
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 Wed Jan 25 09:54:17 UTC 2012 - mvyskocil@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/ant.spec b/ant.spec
index e927c42..1b2823a 100644
--- a/ant.spec
+++ b/ant.spec
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ Requires:       jaxp_parser_impl
 Requires:       xml-commons-apis
 Requires:       xml-commons-resolver
 Requires:       jpackage-utils >= 1.7.5
-# allow usage third-party java in future
-Recommends:     java-devel >= 1.5.0
+Requires:       java-devel >= 1.5.0
 Obsoletes:      apache-ant < %{version}
 Provides:       apache-ant = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      ant-nodeps < %{version}