diff --git a/docbook-dtds.spec b/docbook-dtds.spec
index 1c59238..74bd38c 100644
--- a/docbook-dtds.spec
+++ b/docbook-dtds.spec
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-%define openjadever 1.3.2
-%define version_list "{3,4}.{0,1}-sgml 4.1.2-xml 4.{2,3,4,5}-{sgml,xml}"
+%global openjadever 1.3.2
+%global version_list "{3,4}.{0,1}-sgml 4.1.2-xml 4.{2,3,4,5}-{sgml,xml}"
+%{!?_pkgdocdir: %global _pkgdocdir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}}
 
 Name: docbook-dtds
 Version: 1.0
-Release: 60%{?dist}
+Release: 61%{?dist}
 Group: Applications/Text
 
 Summary: SGML and XML document type definitions for DocBook
@@ -210,10 +211,10 @@ done
 
 
 #workaround the missing support for --parents hack in rpm 4.11+
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_pkgdocdir}
 for i in */*.txt */ChangeLog */README
 do
-  cp -pr --parents $i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/
+  cp -pr --parents $i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_pkgdocdir}
 done
 
 %clean
@@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %defattr (0644,root,root,0755)
 #in upstream tarballs there is a lot of files with 0755 permissions
 #but they don't need to be, 0644 is enough for every file in tarball
-%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
+%{_pkgdocdir}
 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/*ml-dtd-*
 %config(noreplace) /etc/sgml/*ml-docbook.cat
 %ghost %config(noreplace) /etc/sgml/*ml-docbook-*.cat
@@ -411,6 +412,9 @@ do
 done
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Aug 06 2013 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 1.0-61
+- use pkgdocdir variable when available (#993727)
+
 * Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-60
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild