diff --git a/pulseaudio.changes b/pulseaudio.changes
index feeeaa9..dba64b4 100644
--- a/pulseaudio.changes
+++ b/pulseaudio.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Oct 20 20:52:41 UTC 2013 - oholecek@suse.com
+
+- enable bluez4 support for older openSUSE releases
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 18 17:49:24 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/pulseaudio.spec b/pulseaudio.spec
index 1216eb9..f5395d0 100644
--- a/pulseaudio.spec
+++ b/pulseaudio.spec
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Release:        0
 %define soname  0
 %define _udevrulesdir %(pkg-config --variable=udevdir udev)/rules.d
 %define _fwdefdir /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.d/services
+# store bluez version from bluez-devel and check for bluez4/5
+# _bluezVersion is than also used in requires for bluetooth subpackage
+# once oS 12.3 is EOL, this can be removed as there will probably be nothing providing bluez4
+%define _bluezVersion %(LC_ALL="C" rpm --qf '%%{VERSION}' -q bluez-devel | grep -v 'not installed')
+%define _bluez5used 0%(echo "%{_bluezVersion}" | grep -q '^5' && echo 1)
 Summary:        A Networked Sound Server
 License:        GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+
 Group:          System/Sound Daemons
@@ -40,7 +45,8 @@ Patch0:         disabled-start.diff
 Patch1:         suppress-socket-error-msg.diff
 Patch2:         pulseaudio-wrong-memset.patch
 BuildRequires:  alsa-devel >= 1.0.24
-BuildRequires:  bluez-devel >= 5
+# require only minimal bluez, if we are on bluez 5 we will determine in %build phase
+BuildRequires:  bluez-devel >= 4.99
 BuildRequires:  doxygen
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -182,7 +188,7 @@ This package includes support for Jack-based applications.
 Summary:        Bluetooth support for the PulseAudio sound server
 Group:          System/Sound Daemons
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
-Requires:       bluez >= 5
+Requires:       bluez = %{_bluezVersion}
 
 %description module-bluetooth
 pulseaudio is a networked sound server for Linux and other Unix like
@@ -301,7 +307,11 @@ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./bootstrap.sh
         --with-system-group=pulse \
         --with-access-group=pulse-access \
         --disable-hal-compat \
+%if 0%{?_bluez5used}
         --disable-bluez4 \
+%else
+        --disable-bluez5 \
+%endif
         --with-udev-rules-dir=%{_udevrulesdir}
 make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
 make doxygen
@@ -539,10 +549,16 @@ exit 0
 %files module-bluetooth
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluetooth-policy.so
-%{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/libbluez5-util.so
 %{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluetooth-discover.so
+%if 0%{?_bluez5used}
+%{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/libbluez5-util.so
 %{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluez5-device.so
 %{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluez5-discover.so
+%else
+%{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/libbluez4-util.so
+%{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluez4-device.so
+%{_libdir}/pulse-%{drvver}/modules/module-bluez4-discover.so
+%endif
 
 %files module-gconf
 %defattr(-,root,root)