diff --git a/lib/libspec.lib.in b/lib/libspec.lib.in
index d85f0fe..f8d9170 100644
--- a/lib/libspec.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libspec.lib.in
@@ -644,19 +644,22 @@ $FUNCNAME: running: rpm -q $rpm_options --specfile --specedit $specfile ..."
 rpm -q $rpm_options --specfile --specedit $specfile \
       > $specfile_preprocessed 2> $tmpspreprerr"
 
-   [[ -s "$tmpspreprerr" ||
-     $(cat $specfile_preprocessed | wc -l) -lt \
-     $(cat $specfile | wc -l) ]] &&
-    { notify.warning $"specfile has errors:"
+   if [ -s "$tmpspreprerr" ]; then
+      notify.warning $"the specfile has some syntax errors:"
       while read line; do
          notify.warning "   $line"
       done < $tmpspreprerr
-
+   elif [ -z "$(grep "^%changelog" $specfile_preprocessed 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+      # try to catch some other syntax errors even if rpm exit with
+      # a zero return code and no messages are sent to stderr
+      # FIXME: we assume "%changelog" is the last part of the specfile
+      notify.warning $"the specfile has some syntax errors:"
       while read line; do
          notify.warning "   $line"
       done < <(tail -n 3 $specfile_preprocessed)
       notify.warning ">>"
-      notify.warning "   "$"the error should be here!"; }
+      notify.warning "   "$"the error should be here!"
+   fi
 
    rm -f $tmpspreprerr
 }
diff --git a/po/it/autospec.po b/po/it/autospec.po
index b5625d5..5e0b648 100644
--- a/po/it/autospec.po
+++ b/po/it/autospec.po
@@ -550,8 +550,8 @@ msgstr  "specfile con fine linea CR"
 msgid   "specfile with an unsupported format"
 msgstr  "specfile in formato non supportato"
 
-msgid   "specfile has errors:"
-msgstr  "lo specfile contiene degli errori:"
+msgid   "the specfile has some syntax errors:"
+msgstr  "lo specfile ha degli errori di sintassi:"
 
 msgid   "the error should be here!"
 msgstr  "l'errore dovrebbe essere qui!"