diff --git a/ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch b/ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch
index 5c6ff61..77ee2d6 100644
--- a/ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch
+++ b/ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-diff -Nru aws-sam-translator-1.9.0.orig/requirements/base.txt aws-sam-translator-1.9.0/requirements/base.txt
---- aws-sam-translator-1.9.0.orig/requirements/base.txt	2018-11-29 18:53:32.000000000 +0100
-+++ aws-sam-translator-1.9.0/requirements/base.txt	2019-01-21 13:38:19.566088857 +0100
+diff -Nru serverless-application-model-1.11.0.orig/requirements/base.txt serverless-application-model-1.11.0/requirements/base.txt
+--- serverless-application-model-1.11.0.orig/requirements/base.txt	2019-04-26 00:03:58.000000000 +0200
++++ serverless-application-model-1.11.0/requirements/base.txt	2019-07-10 14:43:48.484197605 +0200
 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -boto3~=1.5
 -enum34~=1.1; python_version<"3.4"
 -jsonschema~=2.6
 -six~=1.11
 +boto3>=1.5
-+enum34>=1.1; python_version<"3.4"
++enum34>=1.1
 +jsonschema>=2.6
 +six>=1.11
  
diff --git a/python-aws-sam-translator.changes b/python-aws-sam-translator.changes
index f1a8054..05e315e 100644
--- a/python-aws-sam-translator.changes
+++ b/python-aws-sam-translator.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 11 09:43:24 UTC 2019 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
+
+- Fix build on SLE-12
+  + Add python to BuildRequires for suse_version < 1500
+  + Set LANG to en_US.UTF8 before running testsuite
+  + Refresh ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch to
+    strip "python_version<"3.4"" from install_requires
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun  5 18:12:58 UTC 2019 - Todd R <toddrme2178@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/python-aws-sam-translator.spec b/python-aws-sam-translator.spec
index d85cb74..31c0865 100644
--- a/python-aws-sam-translator.spec
+++ b/python-aws-sam-translator.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model
 Source:         https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/serverless-application-model-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch:          ast_drop-compatible-releases-operator.patch
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1500
+BuildRequires:  python
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -36,9 +39,9 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module coverage >= 4.4.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module jsonschema >= 2.6}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock >= 2.0.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module parameterized >= 0.6.1}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module py >= 1.4.33}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.0.7}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-cov >= 2.4.0}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module py >= 1.4.33}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests >= 2.20.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six >= 1.11}
 BuildRequires:  python-enum34 >= 1.1
@@ -75,6 +78,7 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
 install -D -m 644 bin/sam-translate.py %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/sam-translate
 
 %check
+export LANG=en_US.UTF8
 %pytest
 
 %files %{python_files}