diff --git a/apache-commons-codec.spec b/apache-commons-codec.spec
index 4176618..4bfe568 100644
--- a/apache-commons-codec.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-codec.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Requires:      jpackage-utils
 # It looks like there are packages in F-18 that BR/R the short name
 Provides:      %{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:     %{short_name} < %{version}-%{release}
+# Provide and obsolete jakarta-commons-codec to support installing this
+# package on RHEL 6, which still uses the old jakarta-commons-* package
+# naming scheme.
 Provides:      jakarta-%{short_name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:     jakarta-%{short_name} < %{version}-%{release}