diff --git a/main/acf-kamailio/APKBUILD b/main/acf-kamailio/APKBUILD
index 548151f8449561aa89bab869d05a35bedcc29f33..a4a094ec7730a56b7d365cbe403b27d04fe409ac 100644
--- a/main/acf-kamailio/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/acf-kamailio/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 options="!check" # no test suite
 depends="acf-core kamailio acf-db-lib"
-makedepends="acf-db-lib"
 source="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/acf/acf-kamailio/-/archive/v$pkgver/acf-kamailio-v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver"
 
diff --git a/main/acf-mariadb/APKBUILD b/main/acf-mariadb/APKBUILD
index 99e5ef1382cdf607a3e969be50936b0d568df2fa..4d0777a36d1942ef22819e7ae5032359749b3754 100644
--- a/main/acf-mariadb/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/acf-mariadb/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 options="!check" # no test suite
 depends="acf-core mariadb mariadb-client lua-sql-mysql acf-db-lib"
-makedepends="acf-db-lib"
 replaces="acf-mysql"
 source="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/acf/acf-mariadb/-/archive/v$pkgver/acf-mariadb-v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/acf-postgresql/APKBUILD b/main/acf-postgresql/APKBUILD
index e90e5aad21518ea4cc2637f30375a1ad679d2cee..0db960e41fc1b8a53e253053c0510a72d10815dd 100644
--- a/main/acf-postgresql/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/acf-postgresql/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 options="!check" # no test suite
 depends="acf-core postgresql acf-db-lib lua-sql-postgres"
-makedepends="acf-db-lib"
 source="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/acf/acf-postgresql/-/archive/v$pkgver/acf-postgresql-v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver"
 
diff --git a/main/ferm/APKBUILD b/main/ferm/APKBUILD
index e3deb1e01459a4741efdd2d25680fc093f52361a..7d45663d969c327bbc06e9f1bdbc913380c0181e 100644
--- a/main/ferm/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/ferm/APKBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ url="http://ferm.foo-projects.org/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL"
 depends="perl iptables"
-makedepends="perl iptables perl-net-dns-resolver-mock"
+makedepends="perl-net-dns-resolver-mock"
 source="
 	http://ferm.foo-projects.org/download/${_pkgver}/ferm-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	ferm.confd
diff --git a/main/perl-dbd-mysql/APKBUILD b/main/perl-dbd-mysql/APKBUILD
index 54fa8f04280fa26f44c91f291d370754071a9501..c0b23e84538dc8a4842ca87992b8ee64de9113ae 100644
--- a/main/perl-dbd-mysql/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-dbd-mysql/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
 depends="perl perl-dbi"
-makedepends="perl perl-dev mariadb-connector-c-dev zlib-dev perl-devel-checklib"
+makedepends="perl-dev mariadb-connector-c-dev zlib-dev perl-devel-checklib"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/D/DV/DVEEDEN/DBD-mysql-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 options="!check" # requires a running dbms
diff --git a/main/perl-log-dispatch/APKBUILD b/main/perl-log-dispatch/APKBUILD
index b1e5c76f16f047073e091c180dc72116cb3ecfb5..cd9fa11dbbaafeefc8870f8e861044f23fec80be 100644
--- a/main/perl-log-dispatch/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-log-dispatch/APKBUILD
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ depends="
 	perl perl-module-runtime perl-dist-checkconflicts perl-devel-globaldestruction
 	perl-namespace-autoclean perl-params-validationcompiler perl-try-tiny perl-specio
 	"
-makedepends="perl-dist-checkconflicts"
 checkdepends="perl-test-needs perl-test-fatal perl-ipc-run3"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Log-Dispatch-$pkgver.tar.gz"