diff --git a/python-kombu.changes b/python-kombu.changes
index 21edc65..75c87eb 100644
--- a/python-kombu.changes
+++ b/python-kombu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Dec  1 21:56:00 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Only require python-importlib for SLE.  It is not needed for any
+  distro running python >= 2.7, and is not being built for those
+  distros.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 29 10:07:56 UTC 2012 - iartarisi@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/python-kombu.spec b/python-kombu.spec
index 6a6c379..6934862 100644
--- a/python-kombu.spec
+++ b/python-kombu.spec
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ Summary:        AMQP Messaging Framework for Python
 Url:            http://github.com/ask/kombu/
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/k/kombu/kombu-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  python-devel 
 BuildRequires:  python-amqplib
 BuildRequires:  python-anyjson
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-distribute
 BuildRequires:  python-mock
 BuildRequires:  python-msgpack-python
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ BuildRequires:  python-unittest2
 BuildRequires:  python-PyYAML
 Requires:       python-amqplib
 Requires:       python-anyjson
-Requires:       python-importlib
 Suggests:       couchdb
 Suggests:       mongodb
 Suggests:       rabbitmq-server
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
+BuildRequires:  python-importlib
 %py_requires
 %else
 BuildArch:      noarch