diff --git a/cracklib.changes b/cracklib.changes
index 04ebd19..4ca4198 100644
--- a/cracklib.changes
+++ b/cracklib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec 12 16:31:23 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Only buildrequire and call translation-update-upstream on SLE:
+  the package in openSUSE is a dummy and is empty.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug 17 12:32:43 UTC 2016 - hguo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/cracklib.spec b/cracklib.spec
index 8325851..965c8e7 100644
--- a/cracklib.spec
+++ b/cracklib.spec
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  gzip
 BuildRequires:  libtool
+%if ! 0%{?is_opensuse}
 BuildRequires:  translation-update-upstream
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 Requires:       cracklib-dict
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -86,7 +88,9 @@ This package contains a small dictionay file used by cracklib.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%if ! 0%{?is_opensuse}
 translation-update-upstream
+%endif
 %patch1
 %patch2
 %patch3 -p1