diff --git a/cgit.changes b/cgit.changes
index 7adc20f..407ad91 100644
--- a/cgit.changes
+++ b/cgit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov 20 13:51:05 UTC 2012 - vjt@openssl.it
+
+- BuildRequire xz 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 20 12:04:15 CET 2012 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/cgit.spec b/cgit.spec
index 26cfc5d..e870d13 100644
--- a/cgit.spec
+++ b/cgit.spec
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Patch4:         cgit-fix-more-read_tree_recursive-invocations.diff
 # Requirements for cgit
 BuildRequires:  gnu-crypto libopenssl-devel libzip-devel
 # Requirements for cgitrc man page generation
-BuildRequires:  asciidoc libxslt
+BuildRequires:  asciidoc libxslt xz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description