diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools.inc
index f7c3202fde..58267966ba 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools.inc
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
   ${PYTHON_PN}-distutils \
   ${PYTHON_PN}-email \
   ${PYTHON_PN}-html \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-json \
   ${PYTHON_PN}-netserver \
   ${PYTHON_PN}-numbers \
   ${PYTHON_PN}-pkgutil \