diff --git a/epel-rpm-macros.spec b/epel-rpm-macros.spec
index aeaf408..9ecc577 100644
--- a/epel-rpm-macros.spec
+++ b/epel-rpm-macros.spec
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Requires:       python2-rpm-macros
 # Make sure EPEL8's Python 3 packages use /usr/bin/python3.6 or python3.8
 #   instead of /usr/libexec/platform-python
 Requires:       (python-modular-rpm-macros if (python36-devel or python38-devel or python39-devel))
-Suggests:       (python36-rpm-macros if python36-devel)
+Recommends:     (python36-rpm-macros if python36-devel)
 Suggests:       (python38-rpm-macros if python38-devel)
 Suggests:       (python39-rpm-macros if python39-devel)
 #systemd additional macros https://pagure.io/epel/issue/77