diff --git a/dev-python/setuptools-rust/setuptools-rust-1.3.0.ebuild b/dev-python/setuptools-rust/setuptools-rust-1.3.0.ebuild
index cb38febad2679..2f2c6bead2f29 100644
--- a/dev-python/setuptools-rust/setuptools-rust-1.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/setuptools-rust/setuptools-rust-1.3.0.ebuild
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	virtual/rust
 	<dev-python/semantic_version-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/semantic_version-2.8.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/typing-extensions-3.7.4.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 BDEPEND="