diff --git a/libgda.spec b/libgda.spec
index 46a43a5..78af8c9 100644
--- a/libgda.spec
+++ b/libgda.spec
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ BuildRequires:    gnome-common
 BuildRequires:    meson
 BuildRequires:    valadoc
 BuildRequires:    openldap-devel
-BuildRequires:    mariadb-devel
+BuildRequires:    mariadb-connector-c-devel
 BuildRequires:    libpq-devel
 BuildRequires:    sqlcipher-devel
 
diff --git a/mariadb.patch b/mariadb.patch
index ab5b2e9..9d510ed 100644
--- a/mariadb.patch
+++ b/mariadb.patch
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  jsonglib_dep = dependency('json-glib-1.0',required : false)
  postgres_dep = dependency ('libpq', required: false)
 -mysql_dep = dependency ('mysqlclient', required: false)
-+mysql_dep = dependency ('mariadb', required: false)
++mysql_dep = dependency ('libmariadb', required: false)
  mysql_args = []
  if mysql_dep.found ()
  if mysql_dep.version ().version_compare ('>21.0.0')