diff --git a/munin.changes b/munin.changes
index 200d5d4..675cabb 100644
--- a/munin.changes
+++ b/munin.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May  2 07:52:08 UTC 2023 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
+
+- Drop manual requires for python (boo#1210588)
+
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 Fri Apr 21 08:13:58 UTC 2023 - Max Lin <mlin@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/munin.spec b/munin.spec
index 314e2f5..5fcd643 100644
--- a/munin.spec
+++ b/munin.spec
@@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ Requires:       perl-Net-Server
 Requires:       perl-base = %{perl_version}
 Requires:       perl-libwww-perl
 Requires:       ps
-# manual requires from certain plugins using "env ..."
-Requires:       python
 Requires:       ruby
 Requires:       shadow
 Requires:       sysstat