diff --git a/man.changes b/man.changes
index 3af2964..3107ede 100644
--- a/man.changes
+++ b/man.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 22 11:55:06 UTC 2013 - meissner@suse.com
+
+- remove japanese manpages
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 16 12:32:31 UTC 2013 - mmeister@suse.com
+
+- Added url as source.
+  Please see http://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Oct 29 12:55:03 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/man.spec b/man.spec
index c1df120..8889a9d 100644
--- a/man.spec
+++ b/man.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package man
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Provides:       man_db
 Requires:       glibc-locale
 Requires:       groff >= 1.18
 Requires:       less
-Source:         man-db-%{version}.tar.xz
+Source:         http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/man-db/man-db-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        sysconfig.cron-man
 Source2:        cron.daily.do_mandb
 Source3:        cron.daily.clean_catman
@@ -190,6 +190,11 @@ Authors:
     for d in `find -name manpath.5.gz -printf '%%h '` ; do
 	ln -sf manpath.5.gz $d/manpath.config.5.gz
     done
+
+    # remove japanese pages, as they are in man-pages-ja
+    # (need to cross verify at some point that they are up to date there)
+    rm -rf ja
+
     popd
     install -m 644 src/man_db.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/manpath.config
     sh ./mk_catdirs %{buildroot}