diff --git a/cpio.changes b/cpio.changes
index 263d4a8..537c75b 100644
--- a/cpio.changes
+++ b/cpio.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug 31 09:37:05 UTC 2010 - aj@suse.de
+
+- Recommend instead of require lang package since it's not mandatory.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 10 14:48:32 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
 
diff --git a/cpio.spec b/cpio.spec
index 989de73..dc8521a 100644
--- a/cpio.spec
+++ b/cpio.spec
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Patch20:        cpio-close_files_after_copy.patch
 Patch21:        cpio-pattern-file-sigsegv.patch
 PreReq:         %install_info_prereq
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-Requires:       %{name}-lang = %{version}
+Recommends:     %{name}-lang = %{version}
 
 %description
 GNU cpio is a program to manage archives of files. This package also