diff --git a/programming/language/perl/perl-IO-Socket-INET6/pspec.xml b/programming/language/perl/perl-IO-Socket-INET6/pspec.xml
index ddca9b7b91..a719c79f5e 100644
--- a/programming/language/perl/perl-IO-Socket-INET6/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/perl/perl-IO-Socket-INET6/pspec.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
             <Dependency>perl-Test-Pod</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-Module-Build</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-Test-Pod-Coverage</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>perl-IO-Socket-SSL</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
     </Source>