diff --git a/dev-python/pymountboot/pymountboot-0.2.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/pymountboot/pymountboot-0.2.3-r1.ebuild
index 90c2d0863dc67..cf4345c9068d5 100644
--- a/dev-python/pymountboot/pymountboot-0.2.3-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pymountboot/pymountboot-0.2.3-r1.ebuild
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ~riscv x86"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.20"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"