diff --git a/python-alembic.spec b/python-alembic.spec
index 015e938..3c8f1c2 100644
--- a/python-alembic.spec
+++ b/python-alembic.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Summary:          Database migration tool for SQLAlchemy
 
 License:          MIT
 URL:              https://pypi.io/project/alembic
-Source0:          %pypi_source alembic
+Source0:          %{pypi_source alembic}
 
 # Alembic fails with Python 3.10.0b2 due to DeprecationWarnings treated as an error.
 # Downstream report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958159
@@ -25,19 +25,19 @@ BuildRequires:    python3-dateutil
 BuildRequires:    python3-pytest
 
 
-%global _description\
-Alembic is a new database migrations tool, written by the author of\
-SQLAlchemy.  A migrations tool offers the following functionality:\
-\
-* Can emit ALTER statements to a database in order to change the structure\
-  of tables and other constructs.\
-* Provides a system whereby "migration scripts" may be constructed; each script\
-  indicates a particular series of steps that can "upgrade" a target database\
-  to a new version, and optionally a series of steps that can "downgrade"\
-  similarly, doing the same steps in reverse.\
-* Allows the scripts to execute in some sequential manner.\
-\
-Documentation and status of Alembic is at http://readthedocs.org/docs/alembic/
+%global _description %{expand:
+Alembic is a new database migrations tool, written by the author of
+SQLAlchemy.  A migrations tool offers the following functionality:
+
+* Can emit ALTER statements to a database in order to change the structure
+  of tables and other constructs.
+* Provides a system whereby "migration scripts" may be constructed; each script
+  indicates a particular series of steps that can "upgrade" a target database
+  to a new version, and optionally a series of steps that can "downgrade"
+  similarly, doing the same steps in reverse.
+* Allows the scripts to execute in some sequential manner.
+
+Documentation and status of Alembic is at http://readthedocs.org/docs/alembic/}
 
 %description %_description
 
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ Documentation and status of Alembic is at http://readthedocs.org/docs/alembic/
 %package -n python3-alembic
 Summary:          %summary
 
-%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-alembic}
-
-
 %description -n python3-alembic %_description
 
 %prep
@@ -57,8 +54,8 @@ Summary:          %summary
 %build
 %py3_build
 
-%{__mkdir_p} bin
-echo 'python3 -c "import alembic.config; alembic.config.main()" $*' > bin/alembic
+mkdir -p bin
+echo '%{python3} -c "import alembic.config; alembic.config.main()" $*' > bin/alembic
 chmod 0755 bin/alembic
 help2man --version-string %{version} --no-info -s 1 bin/alembic > alembic.1
 
@@ -78,7 +75,7 @@ ln -s alembic-%{python3_version}.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/alembic.1
 
 
 %check
-py.test-3
+%pytest
 
 
 %files -n python3-%{modname}
@@ -97,6 +94,7 @@ py.test-3
 * Sat Feb 04 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 1.8.1-3
 - Drop conditionals for EPEL8 (which has setuptools too old for this version
   anyway)
+- Drop obsolete spec file macros, and use appropriate newer ones
 
 * Fri Jan 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.1-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild