diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.28.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.28.1.bb
index ac8a570160..8de08d2620 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.28.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.28.1.bb
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     ${PYTHON_PN}-urllib3 \
     ${PYTHON_PN}-chardet \
     ${PYTHON_PN}-idna \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-compression \
 "
 
 CVE_PRODUCT = "requests"