diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index f6bd6ba5b60..4d80e3141bd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -6678,7 +6678,7 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TO/TOKUHIROM/${name}.tar.gz";
       sha256 = "b1cbac4157ad8dedac6914e1628855e05b8dc885a4007d2e4df8177c6a9b70fb";
     };
-    buildInputs = [ ModuleBuild ModuleBuildPluggablePPPort TestRequires ];
+    buildInputs = [ ModuleBuildPluggablePPPort TestRequires ];
     meta = {
       homepage = https://github.com/tokuhirom/HTML-Escape;
       description = "Extremely fast HTML escaping";