diff --git a/ncurses.changes b/ncurses.changes
index edb4567..b82ad42 100644
--- a/ncurses.changes
+++ b/ncurses.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Apr  4 12:22:26 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Add version requirement for packages terminfo and terminfo-base
+  to avoid trouble with old ncurses tools and libraries 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr  3 09:30:14 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/ncurses.spec b/ncurses.spec
index 0ba6778..6e75d2a 100644
--- a/ncurses.spec
+++ b/ncurses.spec
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ reset -- terminal initialization utility
 Summary:        A terminal descriptions database
 License:        MIT
 Group:          System/Base
+Requires:       ncurses >= %{version}
 Recommends:     terminfo-screeen = %{version}
 Provides:       ncurses:%{_datadir}/tabset
 
@@ -184,6 +185,7 @@ This package contains the library built with the version 6 ABI.
 Summary:        A terminal descriptions database
 License:        SUSE-Public-Domain
 Group:          System/Base
+Requires:       terminfo-base = %{version}
 
 %description -n terminfo
 This is the terminfo reference database, maintained in the ncurses