diff --git a/main/perl-uri/APKBUILD b/main/perl-uri/APKBUILD
index e0bf13016ca4fc0f16cca2d9f3200b0434b54786..1d897a5242efa0e905b7e6fe6ad4a5fc2e048667 100644
--- a/main/perl-uri/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-uri/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/URI/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
-makedepends="perl-dev"
 checkdepends="perl-test-needs"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/URI-$pkgver.tar.gz"