diff --git a/perl-XML-RegExp.spec b/perl-XML-RegExp.spec
index e250686..41f7798 100644
--- a/perl-XML-RegExp.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-RegExp.spec
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires: make
 BuildRequires:  perl-generators
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
-Requires:  perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
 
 %description
 This package contains an utility module containing regular expressions