diff --git a/dev-python/html5lib/html5lib-1.2_pre20240221.ebuild b/dev-python/html5lib/html5lib-1.2_pre20240221.ebuild
index 1a4692f640055..e9b72fe730a5e 100644
--- a/dev-python/html5lib/html5lib-1.2_pre20240221.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/html5lib/html5lib-1.2_pre20240221.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/six-1.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/webencodings-0.5.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pkg-resources[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
 
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2_pre20240221-py314.patch