diff --git a/programming/language/python3/python3-setuptools-rust/pspec.xml b/programming/language/python3/python3-setuptools-rust/pspec.xml
index 0018ba29c8..d879331f5d 100644
--- a/programming/language/python3/python3-setuptools-rust/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/python3/python3-setuptools-rust/pspec.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
         <RuntimeDependencies>
             <Dependency>rust</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>python3-lxml</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-semanticversion</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-typing_extensions</Dependency>
         </RuntimeDependencies>