diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
index dd95cf360..09c5700db 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-importlib-metadata_0.23.bb
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ require python-importlib-metadata.inc
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-configparser \
                    python-contextlib2 \
                    python-pathlib2 \
+                   python-compression \
 "