diff --git a/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.12.ebuild b/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.12.ebuild
index fb49855fb5070..89f3fdcd1003e 100644
--- a/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.12.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.12.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="test"
 
-DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/mako[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*')] )"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/mako[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*')] )"
 RDEPEND=""
 
 PATCHES=(
diff --git a/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.13.ebuild b/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.13.ebuild
index 9c67c5945c154..94b18fd43e9be 100644
--- a/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.13.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/bottle/bottle-0.12.13.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="test"
 
-DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/mako[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*')] )"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/mako[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*')] )"
 RDEPEND=""
 
 PATCHES=(