diff --git a/rpm.changes b/rpm.changes
index f5abc5b..3354070 100644
--- a/rpm.changes
+++ b/rpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 14 15:40:39 UTC 2021 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
+
+- Add explicit requirement on python-rpm-macros to avoid widespread
+  breakage by package mistakenly ignoring their requirement of
+  python-rpm-macros (bsc#1180125).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec 21 16:29:40 CET 2020 - mls@suse.de
 
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index a758c1f..a46f303 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ and requires some packages that are usually required.
 Summary:        RPM dependency generator for Python
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Requires:       python3-base
+# To avoid widespread breakage by package mistakenly ignoring
+# their requirement of python-rpm-macros (bsc#1180125)
+Requires:       python-rpm-macros
 
 %description build-python
 Provides and requires generator for .py files and modules.