diff --git a/libXpm.changes b/libXpm.changes
index 7ea195f..5a012d1 100644
--- a/libXpm.changes
+++ b/libXpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr 13 08:18:00 UTC 2023 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
+
+- suggests instead of require compress (see changelog below) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Apr 12 16:01:36 UTC 2023 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libXpm.spec b/libXpm.spec
index 4d847ec..ed02efd 100644
--- a/libXpm.spec
+++ b/libXpm.spec
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Requires:       /usr/bin/gzip
 Requires:       /usr/bin/uncompress
 # 'compress' (ncompress package) is not available on SLE
 %if 0%{?is_opensuse}
-Requires:       /usr/bin/compress
+Suggests:       /usr/bin/compress
 %endif
 
 %description -n %{lname}