diff --git a/icu.changes b/icu.changes
index 2556cc7..c95eedd 100644
--- a/icu.changes
+++ b/icu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 18 08:02:44 UTC 2021 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+- Fix pthread dependency issue (boo#1182252).
+
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 Fri Dec 25 21:45:13 UTC 2020 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index a59eff3..a5304bc 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package icu
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ unzip %SOURCE3
 popd
 
 %build
+SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
 cd source
 mkdir -p data/out/tmp # build procedure forgets to do this on its own
 export CXXFLAGS="%optflags -DICU_DATA_DIR=\\\"%_datadir/icu/%version/\\\""