diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.2.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.2.ebuild
index 74f0934dfcef8..e23b61cde0c00 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.2.ebuild
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ BDEPEND="
 	>=dev-cpp/mm-common-1.0.0
 	sys-devel/m4
 	dev-lang/perl
+	dev-perl/XML-Parser
 	doc? (
 		app-doc/doxygen
 		dev-libs/libxslt
diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
index 25300c2afb5dc..9cf987f5d8973 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ BDEPEND="
 	>=dev-cpp/mm-common-1.0.0
 	sys-devel/m4
 	dev-lang/perl
+	dev-perl/XML-Parser
 	doc? (
 		app-doc/doxygen
 		dev-libs/libxslt
diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.66.0.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.66.0.ebuild
index 25300c2afb5dc..27244f110de8a 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.66.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.66.0.ebuild
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	virtual/pkgconfig
-	>=dev-cpp/mm-common-1.0.0
-	sys-devel/m4
-	dev-lang/perl
 	doc? (
-		app-doc/doxygen
+		app-doc/doxygen[dot]
+		dev-lang/perl
+		dev-perl/XML-Parser
 		dev-libs/libxslt
 		media-gfx/graphviz
 	)
@@ -45,7 +44,6 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	local emesonargs=(
-		-Dmaintainer-mode=true # Set false and drop mm-common dep once tarballs are made with meson/ninja
 		-Dwarnings=min
 		-Dbuild-deprecated-api=true
 		-Dbuild-documentation=$(usex doc true false)