diff --git a/mock.patch b/mock.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b008d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mock.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py3.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py3.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py3.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-import mock
++from unittest import mock
+ import pytest
+ import sys
+ 
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_misc.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/tracing/test_misc.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_misc.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-from mock import MagicMock
++from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+ import pytest
+ import gc
+ import uuid
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_api.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/test_api.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_api.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-import mock
++from unittest import mock
+ 
+ from sentry_sdk import (
+     configure_scope,
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_client.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/test_client.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_client.py
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ # coding: utf-8
+ import os
+ import json
+-import mock
++from unittest import mock
+ import pytest
+ import subprocess
+ import sys
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_crons.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/test_crons.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/test_crons.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-import mock
++from unittest import mock
+ import pytest
+ import uuid
+ 
+Index: sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py2.py
+===================================================================
+--- sentry-python-1.24.0.orig/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py2.py
++++ sentry-python-1.24.0/tests/tracing/test_decorator_py2.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-import mock
++from unittest import mock
+ 
+ from sentry_sdk.tracing_utils_py2 import (
+     start_child_span_decorator as start_child_span_decorator_py2,
diff --git a/python-sentry-sdk.changes b/python-sentry-sdk.changes
index c4e4483..977f872 100644
--- a/python-sentry-sdk.changes
+++ b/python-sentry-sdk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon May 29 13:31:22 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- add mock.patch to use mock from stdlib 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May 23 10:39:34 UTC 2023 - ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python-sentry-sdk.spec b/python-sentry-sdk.spec
index 24ecdff..3dbcdb1 100644
--- a/python-sentry-sdk.spec
+++ b/python-sentry-sdk.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ License:        BSD-2-Clause
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python
 Source0:        https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python/archive/%{version}/sentry-python-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch1:         mock.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Django >= 1.8}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Flask >= 0.11}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module SQLAlchemy >= 1.2}
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module eventlet}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module gevent}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module hypothesis}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module jsonschema >= 3.2.0}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyramid}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyrsistent >= 0.16.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-cov >= 2.8.1}
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ A Python SDK for Sentry.io.
 https://sentry.io/for/python/
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n sentry-python-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n sentry-python-%{version}
 
 %build
 %python_build