diff --git a/glibc.spec b/glibc.spec
index 7be1b0e..2d5bd23 100644
--- a/glibc.spec
+++ b/glibc.spec
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ end \
 Summary: The GNU libc libraries
 Name: glibc
 Version: %{glibcversion}
-Release: 232%{?dist}
+Release: 233%{?dist}
 
 # In general, GPLv2+ is used by programs, LGPLv2+ is used for
 # libraries.
@@ -1650,6 +1650,9 @@ Summary: The sources for the locales
 Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: %{name}-common = %{version}-%{release}
 
+# This subpackage contains gzip compressed charmaps
+Requires: gzip
+
 %description locale-source
 The sources for all locales provided in the language packs.
 If you are building custom locales you will most likely use
@@ -3429,6 +3432,10 @@ update_gconv_modules_cache ()
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 02 2025 Patsy Griffin <patsy@redhat.com> - 2.34-233
+- glibc-locale-source: Require gzip to handle compressed charmaps
+  (RHEL-111005)
+
 * Tue Sep 02 2025 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com> - 2.34-232
 - libio: Upon asprintf failure set the string pointer to NULL (RHEL-72245)