diff --git a/main/perl-io-stringy/APKBUILD b/main/perl-io-stringy/APKBUILD
index 2c0f7b627bc37175e67c46f715308ab756703a68..7ab047b2d02c9858f9cba9f306227ac54ff7d19e 100644
--- a/main/perl-io-stringy/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-io-stringy/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Stringy"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic-Perl-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later"
 depends="perl"
-makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CA/CAPOEIRAB/IO-Stringy-$pkgver.tar.gz"