diff --git a/xml-commons-apis.changes b/xml-commons-apis.changes
index 9450377..af4c022 100644
--- a/xml-commons-apis.changes
+++ b/xml-commons-apis.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr  8 11:37:06 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Do not depend on the apache-parent, since we are not building
+  using Maven.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb  1 16:34:45 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xml-commons-apis.spec b/xml-commons-apis.spec
index d924c2c..47e1b7e 100644
--- a/xml-commons-apis.spec
+++ b/xml-commons-apis.spec
@@ -32,13 +32,11 @@ Source2:        %{name}-ext-MANIFEST.MF
 Source3:        http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xml-apis/xml-apis/2.0.2/xml-apis-2.0.2.pom
 Source4:        http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xml-apis/xml-apis-ext/1.3.04/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.pom
 BuildRequires:  ant
-BuildRequires:  apache-parent
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  java-devel
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
 BuildRequires:  xz
 #!BuildIgnore:  xerces-j2 xml-apis xml-resolver
-Requires:       apache-parent
 Conflicts:      xml-commons-apis-bootstrap
 Provides:       xerces-j2-xml-apis
 Provides:       xml-apis = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -87,6 +85,8 @@ iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 LICENSE.dom-software.txt > \
 cp %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} .
 sed -i '/distributionManagement/,/\/distributionManagement/ {d}' *.pom
 
+%pom_remove_parent xml-apis-ext*.pom
+
 %build
 ant -Dant.build.javac.source=6 -Dant.build.javac.target=6 jar javadoc