diff --git a/net-snmp.spec b/net-snmp.spec
index 802371d..0ad2811 100644
--- a/net-snmp.spec
+++ b/net-snmp.spec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 Summary: A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
 Name: net-snmp
 Version: 5.5
-Release: 8%{?dist}
+Release: 9%{?dist}
 Epoch: 1
 
 License: BSD and MIT
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ packages installed.
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Summary: The perl NET-SNMP module and the mib2c tool
 Requires: %{name}-libs = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}, perl >= 5
-BuildRequires: perl >= 5
+BuildRequires: perl
 
 %description perl
 The net-snmp-perl package contains the perl files to use SNMP from within
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ Install the net-snmp-gui package, if you want to use this interactive utility.
 %package libs
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Summary: The NET-SNMP runtime libraries
+# the libs link against libperl.so:
+Requires:  perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
 
 %description libs
 The net-snmp-libs package contains the runtime libraries for shared binaries
@@ -404,6 +406,10 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %{_datadir}/snmp/mibs/*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jan 12 2010 Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 1:5.5-9
+- require perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.x) because the package links against
+  libperl.so
+
 * Tue Jan  5 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1:5.5-8
 - fix invalid access to memory in tcpListenerTable (#551030)