diff --git a/spice-gtk.spec b/spice-gtk.spec
index 93808bb..8f3a7f4 100644
--- a/spice-gtk.spec
+++ b/spice-gtk.spec
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 Name:           spice-gtk
 Version:        0.12
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        A GTK+ widget for SPICE clients
 
 Group:          System Environment/Libraries
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ BuildRequires: gtk3-devel
 %endif
 # FIXME: should ship the generated files..
 BuildRequires: pyparsing
+# keep me to get gendeps magic happen
+BuildRequires: spice-protocol
 # Hack because of bz #613466
 BuildRequires: libtool
 Requires: spice-glib%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -260,11 +262,14 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
 %{_bindir}/spicy-stats
 
 %changelog
-* Thu May 10 2012 Marc-André Lureau <elmarco@makai.local> - 0.12-3
+* Tue May 15 2012 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> - 0.12-4
+- re-Add back spice-protocol BuildRequires to help some deps magic happen
+
+* Thu May 10 2012 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> - 0.12-3
 - Fix Spice.Audio constructor Python binding
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820335
 
-* Wed May  2 2012 Marc-André Lureau <elmarco@makai.local> - 0.12-2
+* Wed May  2 2012 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> - 0.12-2
 - Fix virt-manager console not showing up, rhbz#818169
 
 * Tue Apr 24 2012 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> - 0.12-1