diff --git a/cereal.spec b/cereal.spec
index 5e94e9b..d763916 100644
--- a/cereal.spec
+++ b/cereal.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-# The (empty) main package is arch, to have the package built and tests run
-# on all arches, but the actual result package is the noarch -devel subpackge.
 # Debuginfo packages are disabled to prevent rpmbuild from generating an empty
 # debuginfo package for the empty main package.
 %global debug_package %{nil}
 
 Name:           cereal
 Version:        1.3.0
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Release:        6%{?dist}
 Summary:        A header-only C++11 serialization library
 License:        BSD
 Url:            http://uscilab.github.io/cereal/
@@ -25,7 +23,7 @@ easily bundled with other code or used standalone.
 
 %package devel
 Summary:        Development headers and libraries for %{name}
-BuildArch:      noarch
+Provides:       %{name}-static = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %description devel
 cereal is a header-only C++11 serialization library. cereal takes arbitrary
@@ -57,6 +55,9 @@ This package contains development headers and libraries for the cereal library
 %{_datadir}/cmake/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Oct 17 2020 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.3.0-6
+- Make package not noarch (bug #1888969)
+
 * Mon Aug 03 2020 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.3.0-5
 - Fix out-of-source build on F33 (bug #1863317)