diff --git a/webkit2gtk3.changes b/webkit2gtk3.changes
index d03bf56..54d99fa 100644
--- a/webkit2gtk3.changes
+++ b/webkit2gtk3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec  5 13:10:53 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Explicitly buildrequire python2-xml: the build system is (for
+  now) hard locked on python2 and relies on the presence of
+  python2-xml (used to be pulled in by glib2-devel in the past).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Nov 10 17:43:56 UTC 2017 - luc14n0@linuxmail.org
 
diff --git a/webkit2gtk3.spec b/webkit2gtk3.spec
index a49c905..2f844bd 100644
--- a/webkit2gtk3.spec
+++ b/webkit2gtk3.spec
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl >= 5.10.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  python >= 2.6.0
+BuildRequires:  python2-xml
 BuildRequires:  ruby >= 1.8.7
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(atk)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(atspi-2) >= 2.5.3