diff --git a/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes b/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
index 629f093..b638b69 100644
--- a/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
+++ b/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 15:36:36 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Wed Mar 11 13:33:23 CET 2009 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
 
diff --git a/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec b/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
index 37e3c92..7b3e587 100644
--- a/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
+++ b/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Vendor:        openSUSE-Education
 Source:        %{real_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Requires:      perl = %{perl_version}
 BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
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