diff --git a/dev-python/httplib2/httplib2-0.18.1.ebuild b/dev-python/httplib2/httplib2-0.18.1.ebuild
index a88d198375f73..18e47f64e16f6 100644
--- a/dev-python/httplib2/httplib2-0.18.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/httplib2/httplib2-0.18.1.ebuild
@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
-IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND=""
 RDEPEND="app-misc/ca-certificates"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-timeout[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
 PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.12.1-use-system-cacerts.patch )