diff -ur rpm-4.16.0/build/parseChangelog.c rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/parseChangelog.c
--- rpm-4.16.0/build/parseChangelog.c	2020-12-18 20:09:28.341535424 +0100
+++ rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/parseChangelog.c	2020-12-18 20:01:53.963847399 +0100
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
 	goto exit;
     }
     
-    if ((res = parseLines(spec, STRIP_COMMENTS, &sb, NULL)) == PART_ERROR)
+    if ((res = parseLines(spec, STRIP_COMMENTS | STRIP_NOEXPAND, &sb, NULL)) == PART_ERROR)
 	goto exit;
 
     if (sb && addChangelog(spec->packages->header, sb)) {
diff -ur rpm-4.16.0/build/parseSpec.c rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/parseSpec.c
--- rpm-4.16.0/build/parseSpec.c	2020-05-28 12:04:25.007136522 +0200
+++ rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/parseSpec.c	2020-12-18 20:08:13.791373996 +0100
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@
 	if (!spec->readStack->reading)
 	    return 0;
     }
+    /* Also don't expand macros in %changelog and %description, where we set STRIP_NOEXPAND flag */
+    if (strip & STRIP_NOEXPAND)
+	return 0;
 
     if (specExpand(spec, ofi->lineNum, spec->lbuf, &lbuf))
 	return 1;
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@
     lineType = copyNextLineFinish(spec, strip);
     s = spec->line;
     SKIPSPACE(s);
-    if (!lineType)
+    if (!lineType || (strip & STRIP_NOEXPAND))
 	goto after_classification;
 
     /* check ordering of the conditional */
diff -ur rpm-4.16.0/build/rpmbuild_internal.h rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/rpmbuild_internal.h
--- rpm-4.16.0/build/rpmbuild_internal.h	2020-12-18 20:09:28.354868788 +0100
+++ rpm-4.16.0-noexpand/build/rpmbuild_internal.h	2020-12-18 20:09:09.054827168 +0100
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@
 #define STRIP_NOTHING             0
 #define STRIP_TRAILINGSPACE (1 << 0)
 #define STRIP_COMMENTS      (1 << 1)
+#define STRIP_NOEXPAND      (1 << 2)
 
 #define ALLOW_EMPTY         (1 << 16)