diff --git a/perl-Parse-Yapp.changes b/perl-Parse-Yapp.changes
index 04556a8..209905e 100644
--- a/perl-Parse-Yapp.changes
+++ b/perl-Parse-Yapp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:56 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-Parse-Yapp.spec b/perl-Parse-Yapp.spec
index a0ae944..19da087 100644
--- a/perl-Parse-Yapp.spec
+++ b/perl-Parse-Yapp.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Url:            http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Parse
 Summary:        Perl extension for generating and using LALR parsers
 Source:         Parse-Yapp-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 Parse::Yapp (Yet Another Perl Parser compiler) is a collection of