diff --git a/phonon.spec b/phonon.spec
index 5b6cdd4..f67a59d 100644
--- a/phonon.spec
+++ b/phonon.spec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 Summary: Multimedia framework api
 Name:    phonon
 Version: 4.8.3
-Release: 6%{?dist}
+Release: 7%{?dist}
 License: LGPLv2+
 URL:     http://phonon.kde.org/
 %if 0%{?snap}
@@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ test "$(pkg-config --modversion phonon4qt5)" = "%{version}"
 %endif
 %{_libdir}/libphononexperimental.so.4*
 
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223956
+# replacing symlink with a dir
+%pretrans devel -p <lua>
+path = "%{_includedir}/phonon/Phonon"
+st = posix.stat(path)
+if st and st.type == "link" then
+  os.remove(path)
+end
+
 %files devel
 %{_datadir}/phonon/buildsystem/
 %dir %{_libdir}/cmake/
@@ -199,6 +208,9 @@ test "$(pkg-config --modversion phonon4qt5)" = "%{version}"
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 15 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.8.3-7
+- -devel: add lua scriptlet workaround for symlink->dir (#1223956)
+
 * Mon Jul 06 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.8.3-6
 - backport upstream fixes, mostly for Qt5-fPIC-related FTBFS (#1239789)