diff --git a/tpm2.0-tools.changes b/tpm2.0-tools.changes
index da0a44c..24c3035 100644
--- a/tpm2.0-tools.changes
+++ b/tpm2.0-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar  7 15:44:14 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
+
+- disable pandoc for all but openSUSE, since pandoc never was on SLE
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar  7 14:29:10 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
+
+- disable pandoc/man pages generation on SLE-15, because pandoc is not
+  available there (and adding it would require two dozen additional haskell
+  packages)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 22 11:08:19 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/tpm2.0-tools.spec b/tpm2.0-tools.spec
index 56ce3ae..57efd68 100644
--- a/tpm2.0-tools.spec
+++ b/tpm2.0-tools.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  libcurl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool
+%if 0%{?is_opensuse}
 BuildRequires:  pandoc
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  tpm2-0-tss-devel
 BuildRequires:  tpm2.0-abrmd-devel
@@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" -delete -print
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc README.md LICENSE CHANGELOG.md
 /usr/bin/tpm2_*
+%if 0%{?is_opensuse}
 %{_mandir}/man1/tpm2_*
+%endif
 
 %changelog