diff --git a/python-matplotlib.changes b/python-matplotlib.changes
index ed12e39..28991a5 100644
--- a/python-matplotlib.changes
+++ b/python-matplotlib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr 26 12:03:33 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Remove configobj buildrequires, all configobj files should have
+  been removed from matplotlib years ago
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 20 10:08:51 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-matplotlib.spec b/python-matplotlib.spec
index 14ee9da..62868e9 100644
--- a/python-matplotlib.spec
+++ b/python-matplotlib.spec
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ BuildRequires:  tcl
 BuildRequires:  tcl-devel
 BuildRequires:  tk
 BuildRequires:  tk-devel
-Requires:       python-configobj
 Requires:       python-dateutil
 Requires:       python-numpy >= 1.2.1
 Requires:       python-tz
@@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ BuildRequires:  wxWidgets-devel
 
 ## These packages are required to prevent that matplotlib installs it's
 ## own versions of the packages from the lib directory
-BuildRequires:  python-configobj
 BuildRequires:  python-dateutil
 BuildRequires:  python-tz