diff --git a/system-users.changes b/system-users.changes
index 1e76e27..e0c4cdc 100644
--- a/system-users.changes
+++ b/system-users.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 10 09:33:46 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Drop pkgconfig(systemd) BuildRequires: we no longer depend on
+  systemd-sysusers, but converted to shadow toolset.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 19 13:18:51 CEST 2017 - kukuk@suse.de
 
diff --git a/system-users.spec b/system-users.spec
index ff8676c..bed505f 100644
--- a/system-users.spec
+++ b/system-users.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ Source15:       system-user-nobody.conf
 Source16:       system-user-upsd.conf
 BuildRequires:  sysuser-shadow
 BuildRequires:  sysuser-tools
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(systemd)
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description