diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 48376ce5c9bc..e55da4718a59 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ pkgbase = duplicity-bzr
 	arch = i686
 	arch = x86_64
 	license = GPL
+	makedepends = bzr
 	depends = gnupg
 	depends = librsync
 	depends = ncftp
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 973ed56bd9bd..3229932c6fe1 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ optdepends=('lftp: FTPS backend'
             'python2-httplib2: Ubuntu One backend'
             'python2-oauthlib: Ubuntu One backend'
             'rsync: rsync backend')
+makedepends=('bzr')
 source=(bzr+lp:duplicity)
 sha512sums=('SKIP')
 #_bzrtrunk='https://code.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/duplicity/trunk'