diff --git a/meson.changes b/meson.changes
index 51033c5..07ad2d8 100644
--- a/meson.changes
+++ b/meson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 17 11:57:17 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Switch to distutils build and properly create egg-info
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 16 11:20:15 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/meson.spec b/meson.spec
index e6fac3e..1159e12 100644
--- a/meson.spec
+++ b/meson.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 %endif
 %define _name   mesonbuild
 %{!?vim_data_dir:%global vim_data_dir %{_datadir}/vim}
-%bcond_without setuptools
+%bcond_with setuptools
 Name:           meson%{name_ext}
 Version:        0.49.0
 Release:        0
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ from mesonbuild.mesonmain import main
 sys.exit(main())
 """ > %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
 chmod +x %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
+
+# ensure egg-info is a directory
+rm %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/*.egg-info
+cp -r meson.egg-info %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/meson-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info
 %endif
 %endif