diff --git a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
index d31ae5937..9d77ad166 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
@@ -2,12 +2,11 @@
 maintainer="Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>"
 pkgname=postmarketos-base
 pkgver=61
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Meta package for minimal postmarketOS base"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
-makedepends="postmarketos-initramfs"
 # Several of these dependencies come from alpine - base, as the upstream
 # recommendation to not depend on openrc has been to copy them here:
 # https: // gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/71686#note_435428