diff --git a/srcpkgs/itstool/template b/srcpkgs/itstool/template
index ff6100e84e5..cb364f34fc4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/itstool/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/itstool/template
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ revision=3
 noarch=yes
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2"
-hostmakedepends="python"
-makedepends="python libxml2-python"
-depends="python libxml2-python"
+hostmakedepends="python libxml2-python"
+makedepends="${hostmakedepends}"
+depends="${makedepends}"
 short_desc="ITS Tool"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-3"