diff --git a/nano.changes b/nano.changes
index e0d0197..1a9e371 100644
--- a/nano.changes
+++ b/nano.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 25 09:03:56 UTC 2022 - Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli@suse.com>
+
+- Added obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch to support syntax 
+  highlighting for _channel and _patchinfo files used by OBS
+  
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 29 07:09:44 UTC 2022 - Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/nano.spec b/nano.spec
index 9633682..8739436 100644
--- a/nano.spec
+++ b/nano.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Source0:        https://nano-editor.org/dist/v%{_version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar
 Source1:        https://nano-editor.org/dist/v%{_version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz.asc
 Source2:        https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=42085#/%{name}.keyring
 Source3:        nanorc
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch maurizio.galli@suse.com -- enable syntax for _channel and _patchinfo files used by OBS
+Patch0:         obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
 BuildRequires:  file-devel
 BuildRequires:  groff-full
 BuildRequires:  makeinfo
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ the Pico text editor while also offering a few enhancements.
 %lang_package
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \
diff --git a/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch b/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9e37af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -rub a/syntax/xml.nanorc b/syntax/xml.nanorc
+--- a/syntax/xml.nanorc	2022-04-08 17:13:15.000000000 +0800
++++ b/syntax/xml.nanorc	2022-07-25 16:59:05.041959714 +0800
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ ## Syntax highlighting for XML files.
+ 
+-syntax xml "\.([jrsx]html?|jnlp|mml|pom|rng|sgml?|svg|w[as]dl|wsdd|xjb|xml|xs(d|lt?)|xul)$"
++syntax xml "(\.([jrsx]html?|jnlp|mml|pom|rng|sgml?|svg|w[as]dl|wsdd|xjb|xml|xs(d|lt?)|xul)$|_patchinfo|_channel)"
+ header "<\?xml.*version=.*\?>"
+ magic "(XML|SGML) (sub)?document"
+ comment "<!--|-->"