diff --git a/fdupes.changes b/fdupes.changes
index 00f331f..04694a6 100644
--- a/fdupes.changes
+++ b/fdupes.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 16 12:40:20 UTC 2016 - psimons@suse.com
+
+- We cannot update from fdupes 1.51 to 1.6.1. That "downgrade"
+  works okay'ish for Tumbleweed because we can replace the old
+  package with the new one, but in SLE this is not possible. We
+  asked upstream to please release a "2.0" version to remedy these
+  issues (https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/issues/74),
+  but he does not respond. Therefore, we'll call this version 1.61,
+  ignoring upstreams change in the versioning scheme.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec  5 13:54:08 UTC 2016 - psimons@suse.com
 
diff --git a/fdupes.spec b/fdupes.spec
index 840edbd..66b3daa 100644
--- a/fdupes.spec
+++ b/fdupes.spec
@@ -15,22 +15,22 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+# Upstream calls this version 1.6.1, but that version number is *lower* than
+# previously released ones, like 1.51, so we mangle the number to keep
+# continuity: https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/issues/74.
+%global upstream_version 1.6.1
 
 Name:           fdupes
-Version:        1.6.1
+Version:        1.61
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Identifying or deleting duplicate files
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 Url:            https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
-Source0:        https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/archive/v%{upstream_version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{upstream_version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        macros.fdupes
 #PATCH-FIX-SUSE: fix patch according distro's needs
 Patch0:         fdupes-makefile.patch
-# Upstream changed their versioning scheme after 1.51 in a way that zypper
-# won't recognize as an update without help.
-Provides:       %{name} = 1.51.%{version}
-Obsoletes:      %{name} < 1.51.%{version}
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files
 residing within specified directories.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%setup -q -n %{name}-%{upstream_version}
 %patch0
 
 %build