diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.10.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.10.bb
index a8e82ef6df..84ed287cb2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.10.bb
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=10dded3b58148f3f1fd804b26354af3e \
 DEPENDS = "python-pygobject dbus dbus-glib"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "make"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
 
 SRC_URI = "http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://tmpdir.patch \