diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ea87884..a877c49 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ Changes in version 1.9.1
     Action 5: for better readability do add a newline to the message asking
     developers to run quality and security tests.
 
++ bugfix
+  * lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
+    Workaround the problem of lines containing an 'Obsoletes' followed by a '<='
+    (or similar) operator.
+    (Bug discovered by Silvan Calarco)
+
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Changes in version 1.9.0 - Silvan Birthday Release
diff --git a/lib/libspec.lib.in b/lib/libspec.lib.in
index 90d5245..cc7a4e5 100644
--- a/lib/libspec.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libspec.lib.in
@@ -1092,8 +1092,8 @@ rpmvars.solve "$filesname" "$specfile")" )
                unset tok[0]
                notify.debug "\
 $FUNCNAME: * entry found at line $linenum: \"${tok[*]}\""
-               SPEC_OBSOLETES[${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}]="\
-$(rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile")"
+               SPEC_OBSOLETES[${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}]="\"\
+$(rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile")\""
 
                notify.debug "\
 $FUNCNAME: SPEC_OBSOLETES = ( ${SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]} )"