diff --git a/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk b/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
index c0a136eef0..29578689af 100644
--- a/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson"
 PKG_URL="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/simplejson/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="Python"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python distutilscross:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python distutilscross:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="python/system"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="simplejson: a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON <http://json.org> encoder and decoder for Python 2.5+."