diff --git a/python-kombu.changes b/python-kombu.changes
index 6a1ca9a..4ef777c 100644
--- a/python-kombu.changes
+++ b/python-kombu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 15 16:17:09 UTC 2013 - dmueller@suse.com
+
+- fix python-amqp requirement so that openstack unit tests pass
+
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 Tue Jan 15 13:08:55 UTC 2013 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/python-kombu.spec b/python-kombu.spec
index a9493a1..b353499 100644
--- a/python-kombu.spec
+++ b/python-kombu.spec
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ provide proven and tested solutions to common messaging problems.
 # For rpmlint warning: remove shebang from python library:
 sed -i '/^#!/d' ./kombu/tests/test_serialization.py
 # NOTE(saschpe): We have a newer python-amqp, but this shouldn't be an issue:
-sed -i "s|amqp>=1.0.5,<1.1.0|amqp>=1.0.5|" requirements/default.txt
+sed -i -e "s|amqp>=1.0.5,<1.1.0|amqp>=1.0.5|" requirements/default.txt kombu.egg-info/requires.txt
 
 %build
 python setup.py build