diff --git a/javapackages-tools.changes b/javapackages-tools.changes
index 713f36c..7e90468 100644
--- a/javapackages-tools.changes
+++ b/javapackages-tools.changes
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Sun May 28 19:15:09 UTC 2023 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
 - Enable the tests also for older distributions
-- Require python3 for distributions that don't use versioned
+- Require python3-xml for distributions that don't use versioned
   modules, since module xml is not in python3-base
 
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diff --git a/javapackages-tools.spec b/javapackages-tools.spec
index 703a499..94ee8c6 100644
--- a/javapackages-tools.spec
+++ b/javapackages-tools.spec
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ packaging in Linux distributions
 %package -n python3-javapackages
 Summary:        Module for handling various files for Java packaging
 Group:          Development/Languages/Java
-Requires:       python3
 Requires:       python3-lxml
+Requires:       python3-xml
 Obsoletes:      python-javapackages < %{version}-%{release}
 Provides:       python-javapackages = %{version}-%{release}