diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
index 629b3c7..00575b6 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
+++ b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=7;endline=7;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
 
-DEPENDS = "cmake python-catkin-pkg python-empy-native python-catkin-pkg-native"
+DEPENDS = "cmake python-empy-native python-catkin-pkg-native"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/${ROS_SPN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=${ROS_SP}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d58460cc9112812d8c4e6ecf98bbcc85"
diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.6.19.bb b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.6.19.bb
index b09e07c..436e0c6 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.6.19.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.6.19.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require catkin.inc
 
 DEPENDS_class-native += "catkin-runtime"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "python-catkin-pkg"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "cmake make binutils binutils-symlinks gcc gcc-symlinks g++ g++-symlinks \
     catkin-runtime"