diff --git a/srcpkgs/man-db/template b/srcpkgs/man-db/template
index 3bf97a66e07..f3fe0237867 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/man-db/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/man-db/template
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ configure_args="--with-db=gdbm --with-pager=less --with-gzip=/usr/bin/gzip
  --with-lzma=/usr/bin/lzma --with-xz=/usr/bin/xz --disable-setuid
  --without-included-regex --enable-automatic-create"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config groff"
-makedepends="gdbm-devel zlib-devel libpipeline-devel"
+makedepends="gdbm-devel zlib-devel libpipeline-devel groff"
 depends="bzip2 gzip less groff grep coreutils"
 conf_files="/etc/man_db.conf"
 short_desc="The on-line manual database"