diff --git a/libressl.spec b/libressl.spec
index 422631d..f8f175d 100644
--- a/libressl.spec
+++ b/libressl.spec
@@ -230,9 +230,18 @@ Conflicts:		netcat-gnu
 Provides:		netcat-tls = %{EVRD}
 Provides:		netcat-libressl = %{EVRD}
 Provides:		nc = %{EVRD}
-# Provide "netcat" but of a lower version than the real netcat
-# to allow other packages to depend from any variant of netcat
+# Provide "netcat" to satisfy deps of packages which require _any_
+# implementation of netcat.
+# But make this netcat the default one, so,
+# while other packages provide "netcat = 1.0",
+# provide a higher version here to make this package
+# the default candidate to be installed as "netcat".
+%if %{mdvver} > 201610
+Provides:		netcat = %{EVRD}
+%else
+# keep old default in rosa2016.1
 Provides:		netcat = 1.0
+%endif
 
 %description -n netcat-openbsd
 The nc package contains Netcat (the program is actually nc), a simple