diff --git a/lirc.changes b/lirc.changes
index c91913c..2e0d69d 100644
--- a/lirc.changes
+++ b/lirc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  5 12:06:44 UTC 2021 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Revert "Require typelib packages": better to have rpm auto-detect
+  them.
+- Add gobject-introspection BuildRequires to have the typelib dep
+  scanner on board.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Aug  8 01:55:41 UTC 2021 - Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/lirc.spec b/lirc.spec
index c6966b5..e74f207 100644
--- a/lirc.spec
+++ b/lirc.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Source1:        baselibs.conf
 Patch0:         reproducible.patch
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  gobject-introspection
 BuildRequires:  kmod-compat
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-tools
 # for hw_atilibusb driver
@@ -77,9 +78,6 @@ Group:          Hardware/Other
 Requires(pre):  shadow
 Provides:       %{name} = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      %{name} < %{version}
-# Required by mvc_view.py from lirc-setup
-Requires:       typelib-1_0-Gtk-3_0
-Requires:       typelib-1_0-Vte-2.91
 %{?systemd_requires}
 
 %description    core
@@ -254,6 +252,7 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/lirc/lirc-%{version}.tar.gz %{buildroot}/%{_data
 %postun -n liblirc_driver0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n liblirc0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n libirrecord0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
 %pre core
 getent group lirc >/dev/null || groupadd -r lirc
 getent passwd lirc >/dev/null || \