diff --git a/files/changelog b/files/changelog
index 57788f790b7b7c241311789ebb99cf1f4c3a0ecc..0c184cb171a663e94e3c2146e2f91897a9782545 100644
--- a/files/changelog
+++ b/files/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+heposlibs (7.2.3-1.zesty) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Follow the developments on HEP_OSlibs-7.2.3-1 for el7 x86_64.
+    Dependencies include 179 packages on amd64.
+
+  * [Requestor: fix previous changes requested for GFAL2 by LHCb]
+    Keep only boost-python to run GFAL2 on el7 as requested by LHCb.
+    Remove swig and all other boost package dependencies.
+
+ -- Andrea Valassi <andrea.valassi@cern.ch>  Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:05:00 +0200
+
+
 heposlibs (7.2.2-1.zesty) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Follow the developments on HEP_OSlibs-7.2.2-1 for el7 x86_64.
diff --git a/heposlibs.ctl b/heposlibs.ctl
index 013f2640e7861447b799217ae66ac879f7b7730e..bb88efe9826de9ee2c7f8fdb699225e30d47bb25 100644
--- a/heposlibs.ctl
+++ b/heposlibs.ctl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: heposlibs
-Version: 7.2.2-1.zesty
+Version: 7.2.3-1.zesty
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Homepage: https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/rpms/HEP_OSlibs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Depends:
  bash,
  dnsutils, 
  binutils, 
- libboost-all-dev,
+ libboost-python-dev,
  bzip2,
  libbz2-dev,
  libbz2-1.0,
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ Depends:
  libperl5.24,
  lsb-core,
  sed,
- swig,
  sqlite, libsqlite3-0,
  tar,
  tk,