diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/meta b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
index 3db33fa391..572faf51ab 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libevent: A library for asynchronous event notification"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event-driven network servers."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
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+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"