diff --git a/hunspell-de.spec b/hunspell-de.spec
index d0633da..6e69151 100644
--- a/hunspell-de.spec
+++ b/hunspell-de.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Source: https://www.j3e.de/ispell/igerman98/dict/igerman98-%{upstreamid}.tar.bz2
 URL: https://www.j3e.de/ispell/igerman98
 License: GPLv2 or GPLv3
 BuildArch: noarch
-BuildRequires: aspell, hunspell
+BuildRequires: aspell, hunspell, perl
 
 Requires: hunspell
 Supplements: (hunspell and langpacks-de)
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ popd
 - Resolves: rhbz#1344662 upgrade to latest release
 - switch source URL to https
 - revert the GNU grep 2.23 LANG=C bug workaround
+- added explicit build dependency on perl, now required on rawhide
 
 * Fri Apr 01 2016 Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> - 0.20151222-4
 - Resolves: rhbz#1316359 grep 2.23 broke the build