diff --git a/perl-Font-AFM.changes b/perl-Font-AFM.changes
index 4fd0ded..b2b668c 100644
--- a/perl-Font-AFM.changes
+++ b/perl-Font-AFM.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:38 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Sun Jan 10 15:43:32 CET 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/perl-Font-AFM.spec b/perl-Font-AFM.spec
index c371d34..0d17053 100644
--- a/perl-Font-AFM.spec
+++ b/perl-Font-AFM.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Release:        24
 Source:         Font-AFM-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Url:            http://cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 This module implements the Font::AFM class. Objects of this class are