diff --git a/packages/python/devel/Jinja2/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/Jinja2/package.mk
index d3a47c7ade..dff7e4f050 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/Jinja2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/Jinja2/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="31351a702a408a9e7595a8fc6150fc3f43bb6bf7e319770cbc0db9df9437e852"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/"
 PKG_URL="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${PKG_NAME:0:1}/${PKG_NAME}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host MarkupSafe:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host MarkupSafe:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"
 
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/Mako/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/Mako/package.mk
index b322931282..a8bd28bcc6 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/Mako/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/Mako/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="d60a3903dc3bb01a18ad6a89cdbe2e4eadc69c0bc8ef1e3773ba53d44c3f7a34"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://pypi.org/project/Mako"
 PKG_URL="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${PKG_NAME:0:1}/${PKG_NAME}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host MarkupSafe:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host MarkupSafe:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Mako is a super-fast templating language that borrows the best ideas from the existing templating languages."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"
 
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/MarkupSafe/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/MarkupSafe/package.mk
index 5137f15bab..22cc466671 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/MarkupSafe/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/MarkupSafe/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="af598ed32d6ae86f1b747b82783958b1a4ab8f617b06fe68795c7f026abbdcad"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://pypi.org/project/MarkupSafe/"
 PKG_URL="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${PKG_NAME:0:1}/${PKG_NAME}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="MarkupSafe implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"
 
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/distutilscross/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/distutilscross/package.mk
index 7392a9b522..c13fa89376 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/distutilscross/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/distutilscross/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="4ed3fb427708c8a3ed5fe9c599532480f581078a1e0aec0e50f40eb58e9f0015"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://pypi.org/project/distutilscross/"
 PKG_URL="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${PKG_NAME:0:1}/${PKG_NAME}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="distutilscross enhances distutils to support Cross Compile of Python extensions"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"
 
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
index 16edd16d7d..cc2a92a75b 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="b1db3a153087549497ee52b1c938d2134e0338214fe14f7efd16fecd57b639f5"
 PKG_LICENSE="Apache"
 PKG_SITE="http://mesonbuild.com"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="High productivity build system"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"