diff --git a/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.14.ebuild b/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.14.ebuild
index 0eb846f6d9a15..7a1f73db6b8c3 100644
--- a/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.14.ebuild
+++ b/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.14.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -63,5 +63,6 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-perl/ExtUtils-LibBuilder
 	test? ( dev-perl/File-Which
 			dev-perl/Test-Differences )"
+BDEPEND="dev-perl/Module-Build"
 
 mydoc="doc/biber.tex"
diff --git a/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.16.ebuild b/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.16.ebuild
index 87d2708a6cde4..7c81879be137b 100644
--- a/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.16.ebuild
+++ b/dev-tex/biber/biber-2.16.ebuild
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	test? ( dev-perl/File-Which
 			dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent
 			dev-perl/Test-Differences )"
+BDEPEND="dev-perl/Module-Build"
 
 mydoc="doc/biber.tex"