diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
index 5c213004c8..dd95cf360f 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 inherit pypi setuptools
 require python-importlib-metadata.inc
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-configparser \
+                   python-contextlib2 \
+                   python-pathlib2 \
+"