diff --git a/python-mutagen.spec b/python-mutagen.spec
index e887cb4..167b2d1 100644
--- a/python-mutagen.spec
+++ b/python-mutagen.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name:           python-%{modname}
 Version:        1.42.0
-Release:        7%{?dist}
+Release:        8%{?dist}
 Summary:        Mutagen is a Python module to handle audio meta-data
 
 License:        GPLv2+
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ includes a module to handle generic Ogg bit-streams.
 Summary:        %{summary}
 %{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{modname}}
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
-BuildRequires:  python2-hypothesis
 BuildRequires:  python2-pytest
 
 %description -n python2-%{modname} %{_description}
@@ -80,9 +79,12 @@ rm -rv tests/quality/
 # Without this the testsuite fails with
 # RuntimeError: This test suite needs a unicode locale encoding. Try setting LANG=C.UTF-8
 export LANG=C.UTF-8
-%{__python2} setup.py test
 %{__python3} setup.py test
 
+# skip test that depends on python2-hypothesis
+rm tests/test___init__.py
+%{__python2} setup.py test
+
 %files -n python2-%{modname}
 %license COPYING
 %doc NEWS README.rst
@@ -102,6 +104,9 @@ export LANG=C.UTF-8
 %doc docs/_build/*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 29 2019 Petr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com> - 1.42.0-8
+- Remove build dependency on python2-hypothesis, skip related tests
+
 * Thu Oct 03 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 1.42.0-7
 - Rebuilt for Python 3.8.0rc1 (#1748018)