diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta
index 3ac2bd85e7..6916697c7e 100644
--- a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2"
 PKG_SITE="http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/"
 PKG_URL="http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="Python distribute curl"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python distribute distutilscross curl"
+PKG_DEPENDS="Python curl"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python distutilscross curl"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="python/web"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="pycurl: a Python interface to libcurl"