diff --git a/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk b/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
index f2d73553ce..73c2da5e4f 100644
--- a/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
+++ b/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="PublicDomain"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.sqlite.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://sqlite.org/2013/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="database"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="sqlite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine"