diff --git a/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes b/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
index 01a56c0..14540f1 100644
--- a/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
+++ b/perl-Text-Unidecode.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec  1 13:35:49 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- switch to perl_requires macro
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 29 18:31:21 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec b/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
index 4550379..69e2b1a 100644
--- a/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
+++ b/perl-Text-Unidecode.spec
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Version:       0.04
 Release:       1
 Vendor:        openSUSE-Education
 Source:        %{real_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Requires:      perl = %{perl_version}
+%{perl_requires}
 BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  perl