diff --git a/8c219ec6.patch b/8c219ec6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4d7fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8c219ec6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 8c219ec62ea3bf835c473954f30ea9b1202069eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
+Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:18:23 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Drop an unneeded direct build depndency on wheel (#597)
+
+- wheel is not needed to build sdists
+ - with setuptools 71+, wheel is not needed to build wheels either
+ - older setuptools would communicate the dependency on wheel themselves
+---
+ pyproject.toml | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index 5b9d7d38..9bc8da7f 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=69", "wheel"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=69"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+ [project]
diff --git a/python-pycparser.spec b/python-pycparser.spec
index f488e60..d4fde03 100644
--- a/python-pycparser.spec
+++ b/python-pycparser.spec
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ URL:            https://github.com/eliben/pycparser
 Source0:        %{url}/archive/release_v%{version}/pycparser-release_v%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
 
+# Drop redundant BuildRequires for python3-wheel
+# https://github.com/fedora-eln/eln/issues/284
+Patch:          https://github.com/eliben/pycparser/commit/8c219ec6.patch
+
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel