diff --git a/libgpg-error.spec b/libgpg-error.spec
index 8b1eba7..b166767 100644
--- a/libgpg-error.spec
+++ b/libgpg-error.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Library for error values used by GnuPG components
 Name: libgpg-error
 Version: 1.7
-Release: 1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 URL: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/
 Source0: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2.sig
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %changelog
 * Thu Oct 15 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - 1.7-1
 - long-overdue update to 1.7
+- add a disttag
 
 * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild