diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-panel/template b/srcpkgs/gnome-panel/template
index 109489d8bba..bd26f6d76f1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnome-panel/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-panel/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=3.40.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="ax_cv_zoneinfo_tzdir=/usr/share/zoneinfo"
-hostmakedepends="gettext-devel glib-devel itstool pkg-config tzdata gettext"
+hostmakedepends="gettext-devel glib-devel itstool pkg-config gettext"
 makedepends="cairo-devel dconf-devel elogind-devel evolution-data-server-devel
  gdm-devel gnome-desktop-devel gnome-menus-devel gtk+3-devel libglib-devel
  libgweather-devel libwnck-devel libXrandr-devel libX11-devel pango-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template b/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template
index ee05294d610..b7180e39aff 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static --disable-python
  --enable-locations-compression --with-zoneinfo-dir=/usr/share/zoneinfo"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool itstool glib-devel tzdata"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool itstool glib-devel"
 makedepends="gtk+3-devel libsoup-devel"
 depends="dconf"
 short_desc="Provides access to weather information from the Internet for MATE"