diff --git a/roles/copr/dist_git/files/patches/python3-rpkg-autospec.patch b/roles/copr/dist_git/files/patches/python3-rpkg-autospec.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bda337f09f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/dist_git/files/patches/python3-rpkg-autospec.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyrpkg/utils.py	2022-09-06 20:05:35.000000000 +0000
++++ /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyrpkg/utils.py	2022-09-22 19:08:16.328405267 +0000
+@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@
+ 
+ 
+ def spec_file_processed_by_rpmautospec(file_name, dir_path=None):
++    return False
+     file_path = os.path.join(dir_path or "", file_name)
+ 
+     try:
diff --git a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
index 291d405b57..cb32c54223 100644
--- a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
       - dist-git-selinux
       - copr-dist-git
 
+- name: re-allow importing autospec pre-generated srpms, https://pagure.io/copr/copr/issue/2317
+  patch: src=patches/python3-rpkg-autospec.patch
+         dest=/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyrpkg/utils.py
+  tags: patches
+
 - name: switch selinux to enforcing
   selinux: policy=targeted state=enforcing