There is a new pull request by Johnnynator against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/Johnnynator/void-packages subpkg-makedepends https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/15501 common/build_dependencies.sh: Disallow subpackages in makedepends None A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/15501.patch is attached