diff --git a/a2jmidid.spec b/a2jmidid.spec
index cb30289..bf04740 100644
--- a/a2jmidid.spec
+++ b/a2jmidid.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary:	Daemon for exposing ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system
 Name:		a2jmidid
 Version:	8
-Release:	15%{?dist}
+Release:	16%{?dist}
 URL:		http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
 Source0:	http://download.gna.org/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 # a2jmidi_bridge.c and j2amidi_bridge.c are GPLv2+
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Group:		Applications/Multimedia
 BuildRequires:	alsa-lib-devel
 BuildRequires:	dbus-devel
 BuildRequires:	jack-audio-connection-kit-devel
-BuildRequires:	python
+BuildRequires:	python2
 Requires:	dbus
 
 
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 %{_mandir}/man1/j2a*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Feb 28 2018 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 8-16
+- Update Python 2 dependency declarations to new packaging standards
+  (See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)
+
 * Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 8-15
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild