diff --git a/xfconf.changes b/xfconf.changes
index 216d936..fa39edf 100644
--- a/xfconf.changes
+++ b/xfconf.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 12 05:42:59 UTC 2020 - Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli@gmail.com>
+
+- xfconfd needs to be a hard dependency to libxfconf (boo#1163214)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug 16 12:58:40 UTC 2019 - Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/xfconf.spec b/xfconf.spec
index bba65a7..0fb93a6 100644
--- a/xfconf.spec
+++ b/xfconf.spec
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ This package contains the Perl interface to %{name}.
 %package -n %{libname}
 Summary:        Xfconf Shared Library
 Group:          System/Libraries
-Recommends:     %{name} = %{version}
+Requires:       %{name} >= %{version}
 Provides:       libxfce4mcs = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      libxfce4mcs < %{version}