diff --git a/srcpkgs/notify-osd/template b/srcpkgs/notify-osd/template
index fd84cb77b28..88ec66a4eab 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/notify-osd/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/notify-osd/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="Canonical's on-screen-display notification agent"
 maintainer="Emanuel Serpa <emanuel@openmailbox.org>"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config  glib-devel"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config  glib-devel dbus-glib-devel"
 makedepends="libwnck-devel libnotify-devel dbus-glib-devel"
 provides="notification-daemon-0_1"
 license="GPL-3"