diff --git a/community/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD b/community/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
index a7354480ddb..26a6e6c23a3 100644
--- a/community/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pkgdesc="Qt5 - QtDeclarative component"
 url="http://qt-project.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="LGPL-2.0 with exceptions or GPL-3.0 with exceptions"
-makedepends="qt5-qtbase-dev"
+makedepends="qt5-qtbase-dev python"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev"
 
 case $pkgver in