diff --git a/main/perl-specio/APKBUILD b/main/perl-specio/APKBUILD
index d736ee0fe9d10603d435f5a901f6fb88fcf9be96..d214d3c0b4826114f4a79ffbf067ab8d4dac3d1b 100644
--- a/main/perl-specio/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-specio/APKBUILD
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ depends="
 	perl perl-sub-quote perl-devel-stacktrace perl-role-tiny perl-mro-compat perl-try-tiny
 	perl-test-fatal perl-eval-closure perl-module-runtime
 	"
-makedepends="perl-dev"
 checkdepends="perl-test-needs"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Specio-$pkgver.tar.gz"