diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6954a57..dcf4b73 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Changes in version 1.14.1 - _TO*Hacklab release
 Fri Nov 09 2012 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan(a)gmail.com>
++ bugfix
+  * plugins/pck-update.in - Silvan Calarco:
+    Restore build requirement detection for *.so requirements
 
 + improvement
   * plugins/spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
diff --git a/plugins/pck-update.in b/plugins/pck-update.in
index fd9c1e6..9a7dd72 100644
--- a/plugins/pck-update.in
+++ b/plugins/pck-update.in
@@ -2244,7 +2244,7 @@ $(echo $solibpath | sed "s|-[0-9.]*\.so|.so|")"
                   echo "\
 #$req: library not reported by ldconfig; run \`ldconfig' and try again"
                fi
-            elif [[ "$req" =~ .*\(.*\) ]]; then
+            elif [[ "$req" =~ .*\(.*\) || "$req" =~ .*\.so ]]; then
                # other a(b) requirements
                rpm -q --qf %{name} --whatprovides "$req" &>/dev/null &&
                   buildreq="$(rpm -q --qf %{name} --whatprovides "$req")" ||