diff --git a/gnome-menus.spec b/gnome-menus.spec
index f6a07bc..036ca4b 100644
--- a/gnome-menus.spec
+++ b/gnome-menus.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %define po_package gnome-menus
 %define enable_debugging 0
 
-%define pyver %(%{__python} -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]")
+%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
 
 Summary:  A menu system for the GNOME project
 Name: gnome-menus
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ URL: http://www.gnome.org/
 Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
 Requires:  redhat-menus >= 6.5.4
-Requires: python-abi = %{pyver}
 BuildRequires: glib2-devel >= 2.6.0
 BuildRequires: python2-devel >= 2.3.0
 BuildRequires: gamin-devel
@@ -83,8 +82,8 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc
 %{_libdir}/libgnome-menu.so.*
-%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/gmenu.so
-%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/GMenuSimpleEditor/*
+%{python_sitelib}/gmenu.so
+%{python_sitelib}/GMenuSimpleEditor/*
 %{_datadir}/gnome-menus/glade/gmenu-simple-editor.glade
 %{_datadir}/applications/gmenu-simple-editor.desktop
 %{_datadir}/desktop-directories
@@ -100,6 +99,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 * Mon Nov  6 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.17.2-1
 - Update to 2.17.2
 - Don't ship static libraries
+- Fix python packaging
 
 * Sat Oct 21 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.16.1-1
 - Update to 2.16.1