diff --git a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis.inc b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis.inc
index 3f1ce3c..8d02a75 100644
--- a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis.inc
+++ b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "An utility library for Open Source Mobile Communications"
-DEPENDS = "libosmocore ortp"
+DEPENDS = "libosmocore ortp libtalloc"
 DEPENDS_append_geode = "dahdi-linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://openbsc.gnumonks.org"
 LICENSE = "AGPLv3"
diff --git a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis_git.bb b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis_git.bb
index 8d1b56e..16b0da3 100644
--- a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-abis/libosmo-abis_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 require ${PN}.inc
 
-DEPENDS += "libtalloc"
-
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 SRCREV = "49917c129b1456585258b0ebe89a513ecef823a8"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.osmocom.org/libosmo-abis.git;protocol=git"