diff --git a/bugwarrior.spec b/bugwarrior.spec
index 7334fe7..4dfbba9 100644
--- a/bugwarrior.spec
+++ b/bugwarrior.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:               bugwarrior
 Version:            1.5.1
-Release:            1%{?dist}
+Release:            2%{?dist}
 Summary:            Sync github, bitbucket, and trac issues with taskwarrior
 
 Group:              Development/Libraries
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Requires:           python-pycurl
 Requires:           python-lockfile
 Requires:           pytz
 Requires:           pyxdg
+Requires:           future
 
 # See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036078
 # and https://github.com/ralphbean/bugwarrior/issues/210#issuecomment-75995671
@@ -67,6 +68,8 @@ megaplan, teamlab, redmine, and activecollab
 # Remove bundled egg-info in case it exists
 rm -rf %{name}.egg-info
 
+sed -i '/future/d' setup.py
+
 %build
 %{__python2} setup.py build
 
@@ -82,6 +85,9 @@ rm -rf %{name}.egg-info
 %{_bindir}/bugwarrior-uda
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jun 12 2017 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-2
+- Pull in the future lib at runtime.
+
 * Fri May 26 2017 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-1
 - new version