diff --git a/srcpkgs/thunderbird-i18n/template b/srcpkgs/thunderbird-i18n/template
index ca3f532495e..378ecfd1816 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/thunderbird-i18n/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/thunderbird-i18n/template
@@ -11,14 +11,13 @@ long_desc="
 noextract=yes
 create_wrksrc=yes
 create_srcdir=yes
-makedepends="thunderbird"
 
 _LANG_PACKS="ar ast be bg bn-BD br ca cs da de el en-GB en-US es-AR es-ES et
  eu fi fr fy-NL ga-IE gd gl he hr hu hy-AM id is it ja ko lt nb-NO nl nn-NO
  pa-IN pl pt-BR pt-PT rm ro ru si sk sl sq sr sv-SE ta-LK tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW"
 
 for f in ${_LANG_PACKS}; do
-	distfiles="${distfiles} ${MOZILLA_SITE}/thunderbird/releases/${version}/linux-i686/xpi/$f.xpi"
+	distfiles+=" ${MOZILLA_SITE}/thunderbird/releases/${version}/linux-i686/xpi/$f.xpi"
 done
 
 checksum="