diff --git a/python-requests.changes b/python-requests.changes
index 39c1d51..f1b740c 100644
--- a/python-requests.changes
+++ b/python-requests.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  3 14:04:52 UTC 2021 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Don't pin idna<3 in the egg-info so that depending packages
+  can install the new idna dropping python2 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Dec 19 09:57:04 UTC 2020 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-requests.spec b/python-requests.spec
index d139003..1ab9d43 100644
--- a/python-requests.spec
+++ b/python-requests.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-requests
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ sed -i "s#\(httpbin.*\), 'never'#\1#" tests/test_requests.py
 %install
 %if !%{with test}
 %python_install
+%{python_expand # don't pin to idna<3 for python3, because many package installers check this and fail with newer idna
+if [ ! 0%{$python_version_nodots} -lt 30 ]; then
+  sed -i -E 's/idna<3,?/idna/' %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/requests-%{version}*-info/requires.txt
+fi
+}
 # check that urllib3 is not installed
 test ! -e %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/requests/packages/urllib3
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}