diff --git a/packages/gdb/build.sh b/packages/gdb/build.sh
index 0bbb752b2..08026e8c5 100644
--- a/packages/gdb/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gdb/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=1e55b4d7cdca7b34be12f4ceae651623aa73b2fd640152313f9f66a7149757c4
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, liblzma, libexpat, readline, ncurses, libmpfr, zlib"
-TERMUX_PKG_SUGGEST="python"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="python"
+TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="python"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="gdb-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="gdb-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="