diff --git a/gimp.changes b/gimp.changes
index 47017ef..2275e28 100644
--- a/gimp.changes
+++ b/gimp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon May 14 13:05:34 UTC 2012 - vuntz@opensuse.org
+
+- Correctly version librsvg-devel BuildRequires: 2.36.0 is needed.
+  We don't version the BuildRequires on 12.1 and earlier to avoid
+  useless unresolvables; it will just result in file-svg plugin not
+  being built when librsvg is not recent enough there.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May  3 14:52:22 UTC 2012 - badshah400@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/gimp.spec b/gimp.spec
index 2cf3440..63723dc 100644
--- a/gimp.spec
+++ b/gimp.spec
@@ -44,7 +44,13 @@ BuildRequires:  liblcms-devel >= 1.16
 BuildRequires:  libmng-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel >= 1.2.37
 BuildRequires:  libpoppler-glib-devel >= 0.12.4
-BuildRequires:  librsvg-devel >= 2.34.2
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1220
+# best-effort attempt to use librsvg (file-svg plugin will be built
+# if recent-enough version of librsvg is there)
+BuildRequires:  librsvg-devel
+%else
+BuildRequires:  librsvg-devel >= 2.36.0
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  libtiff-devel
 BuildRequires:  libwebkit-devel >= 1.6.1
 BuildRequires:  libwmf-devel >= 0.2.8