diff --git a/srcpkgs/hsb2hs/template b/srcpkgs/hsb2hs/template
index aacd8be13ac..bfccbf3452d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/hsb2hs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/hsb2hs/template
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ version=0.3.1
 revision=4
 build_style=haskell-stack
 stackage="lts-7.0"
-hostmakedepends="ghc stack"
 short_desc="Preprocesses a file, adding blobs from files as string literals"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="3-clause-BSD"