diff --git a/.python-sqlalchemy.metadata b/.python-sqlalchemy.metadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6586419
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.python-sqlalchemy.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+277e64612df80a1fe9c05a33f69928f5de18f5fb SQLAlchemy-1.3.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/rpminspect.yaml b/rpminspect.yaml
index 0ceadff..814c0df 100644
--- a/rpminspect.yaml
+++ b/rpminspect.yaml
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ debuginfo:
         - /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/sqlalchemy/cprocessors.so
         - /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/sqlalchemy/cresultproxy.so
         - /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/sqlalchemy/cutils.so
+
+# In a modular build rpminspect confuses the python2-libs for a
+# subpackage of sqlalchemy. Ignore this check.
+rpmdeps:
+    ignore:
+        requires: ^libpython[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.so.*\(\)\(.*\)$