diff --git a/automake.spec b/automake.spec
index 3c1e28c..87b4064 100644
--- a/automake.spec
+++ b/automake.spec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 Summary:    A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
 Name:       automake
 Version:    %{api_version}.1
-Release:    1%{?dist}
+Release:    2%{?dist}
 
 # docs ~> GFDL, sources ~> GPLv2+, mkinstalldirs ~> PD and install-sh ~> MIT
 License:    GPLv2+ and GFDL and Public Domain and MIT
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ BuildArch:  noarch
 %if %{with automake_enables_optional_test}
 BuildRequires: automake libtool gettext-devel flex bison texinfo-tex texlive-dvips
 BuildRequires: java-devel-openjdk gcc-gfortran
-BuildRequires: dejagnu expect emacs imake python-docutils vala
+BuildRequires: dejagnu expect emacs imake python2-docutils vala
 BuildRequires: cscope ncompress sharutils
 BuildRequires: gcc-objc gcc-objc++
 %if !0%{?rhel:1}
-BuildRequires: python-virtualenv lzip
+BuildRequires: python2-virtualenv lzip
 %endif
 %endif
 %endif
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 14 2018 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-2
+- Update Python 2 dependency declarations to new packaging standards
+  (See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)
+
 * Mon Mar 12 2018 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-1
 - latest upstream release, per
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-03/msg00019.html