diff --git a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
index e1848aca33..30abed5c96 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=fontforge
 version=20200314
 revision=2
 build_style=cmake
-hostmakedepends="automake ca-certificates gettext git libltdl-devel libtool m4
+hostmakedepends="automake ca-certificates gettext libltdl-devel libtool m4
  pkg-config python3"
 makedepends="libltdl-devel python3-devel zlib-devel pango-devel readline-devel
  giflib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel libxml2-devel