diff --git a/programming/scm/git/pspec.xml b/programming/scm/git/pspec.xml
index 4198e13263..c0c8aa5ec5 100644
--- a/programming/scm/git/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/scm/git/pspec.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
         <Archive sha1sum="d0fc3d9fb551ce9c45c94df3bb88f13ca7905869" type="tarxz">https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.4.4.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>tcltk-devel</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>openssl-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>xmlto</Dependency>
             <Dependency>asciidoc</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-Error</Dependency>
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
             <Dependency>perl-libwww</Dependency>
             <Dependency version="current">perl-Git</Dependency>
             <Dependency>openssh</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>openssl</Dependency>
             <Dependency>rsync</Dependency>
         </RuntimeDependencies>
         <Files>