diff --git a/iso-codes.changes b/iso-codes.changes
index 61b7098..95feaa3 100644
--- a/iso-codes.changes
+++ b/iso-codes.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 25 20:08:06 UTC 2011 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Split out -lang package (bnc#645077).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 14 18:42:56 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/iso-codes.spec b/iso-codes.spec
index aff6271..ff986fe 100644
--- a/iso-codes.spec
+++ b/iso-codes.spec
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-lxml
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildArch:      noarch
+Recommends:     %{name}-lang
 
 %description
 This package provides the ISO-639 language code list, the ISO-3166
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ This package provides the ISO-639 Language code list, the ISO-3166
 Territory code list, and ISO-3166-2 sub-territory lists, and all their
 translations in gettext .po form.
 
+%lang_package
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
@@ -66,11 +68,13 @@ translations in gettext .po form.
 %clean
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
-%files -f %{name}.lang
+%files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc ChangeLog README TODO
 %{_datadir}/xml/iso-codes
 
+%files lang -f %{name}.lang
+
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %{_datadir}/pkgconfig/iso-codes.pc