diff --git a/autoconf213.spec b/autoconf213.spec
index dd76b32..2e73b5e 100644
--- a/autoconf213.spec
+++ b/autoconf213.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary:    A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code
 Name:       autoconf213
 Version:    2.13
-Release:    33%{?dist}
+Release:    34%{?dist}
 License:    GPLv2+
 Group:      Development/Tools
 URL:        http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Patch9:     autoconf-2.13-versioning.patch
 Patch10:    autoconf213-destdir.patch
 Patch11:    autoconf213-info.patch
 Patch12:    autoconf213-testsuite.patch
-Requires:   gawk, m4 >= 1.1, coreutils, perl
+Requires:   gawk, m4 >= 1.1, coreutils
 Requires(post):  /sbin/install-info
 Requires(preun): /sbin/install-info
 Buildrequires:   texinfo, m4 >= 1.1, perl, gawk, dejagnu, flex
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README TODO
 
 %changelog
-* Fri Feb 20 2015 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> - 2.13-33
+* Fri Feb 20 2015 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> - 2.13-34
 - don't ship broken (and ancient) autoscan (rhbz#1194568)
+- drop explicit 'Requires: perl' (related rhbz#1194568)
 
 * Mon Jul 28 2014 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> - 2.13-32
 - don't build-require compat-gcc-34-g77 at all