diff --git a/apache-commons-pool.changes b/apache-commons-pool.changes
index 33e6e4d..66f5716 100644
--- a/apache-commons-pool.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-pool.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 25 17:51:29 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Remove pom parent, since we don't use it when not building with
+  maven
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Dec 13 10:37:54 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-pool.spec b/apache-commons-pool.spec
index 2357779..096b310 100644
--- a/apache-commons-pool.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-pool.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package apache-commons-pool
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ Source0:        http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/%{base_name}/source/%{short_n
 Patch0:         jakarta-commons-pool-build.patch
 Patch1:         commons-pool-1.6-sourcetarget.patch
 BuildRequires:  ant
-BuildRequires:  apache-commons-parent
+BuildRequires:  dos2unix
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
 BuildRequires:  junit
-Requires:       apache-commons-parent
 Provides:       jakarta-%{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      jakarta-%{short_name} < %{version}-%{release}
 Provides:       %{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -68,6 +67,10 @@ find . -name "*.jar" -exec rm -f {} \;
 %patch0
 %patch1 -p1
 
+dos2unix README.txt
+
+%pom_remove_parent .
+
 %build
 ant -Djava.io.tmpdir=. clean dist