diff --git a/macros.perl b/macros.perl
index b8fc66b..ef22701 100644
--- a/macros.perl
+++ b/macros.perl
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 #
 # Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> 2009
 
+# keep track of what "revision" of the filtering we're at.  Each time we
+# change the filter we should increment this.
+
+%perl_default_filter_revision 2
+
 # By default, for perl packages we want to filter all files in _docdir from 
 # req/prov scanning, as well as filtering out any provides caused by private 
 # libs in vendorarch/archlib (vendor/core).
@@ -15,6 +20,7 @@
 %perl_default_filter %{?filter_setup: %{expand: \
 %filter_provides_in %{perl_vendorarch}/.*\\.so$ \
 %filter_provides_in -P %{perl_archlib}/(?!CORE/libperl).*\\.so$ \
+%filter_from_provides /perl(UNIVERSAL)/d; /perl(DB)/d \
 %filter_provides_in %{_docdir} \
 %filter_requires_in %{_docdir} \
 %filter_setup \
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index f779ddd..03b5b6a 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 Name:           perl
 Version:        %{perl_version}
-Release:        83%{?dist}
+Release:        84%{?dist}
 Epoch:          %{perl_epoch}
 Summary:        Practical Extraction and Report Language
 Group:          Development/Languages
@@ -1947,6 +1947,10 @@ TMPDIR="$PWD/tmp" make test
 
 # Old changelog entries are preserved in CVS.
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 01 2009 Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> - 4:5.10.0-84
+- add /perl(UNIVERSAL)/d; /perl(DB)/d to perl_default_filter auto-provides
+  filtering
+
 * Thu Oct  1 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-83
 - update Storable to 2.21