diff --git a/python-iniconfig.spec b/python-iniconfig.spec
index 77f79fe..983f40a 100644
--- a/python-iniconfig.spec
+++ b/python-iniconfig.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:               python-iniconfig
 Version:            1.1.1
-Release:            2%{?dist}
+Release:            3%{?dist}
 Summary:            Brain-dead simple parsing of ini files
 License:            MIT
 URL:                http://github.com/RonnyPfannschmidt/iniconfig
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ BuildRequires:      pyproject-rpm-macros
 
 Source0:            %{pypi_source iniconfig}
 
-# pytest 6+ needs this and this uses pytest for tests
-%bcond_without tests
+# Tests are disabled to remove the test dependencies
+# Specify --with tests to run the tests on e.g. EPEL
+%bcond_with tests
 
 %global _description %{expand:
 iniconfig is a small and simple INI-file parser module
@@ -61,6 +62,9 @@ Summary:            %{summary}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 08 2021 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 1.1.1-3
+- Disable tests on RHEL9 to remove tox dependency
+
 * Wed Jan 27 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.1-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild