diff --git a/srcpkgs/libical/patches/libxml2-shared.patch b/srcpkgs/libical/patches/libxml2-shared.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c806d610a03..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libical/patches/libxml2-shared.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/src/libical-glib/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/src/libical-glib/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ add_definitions(-Dlibical_ical_EXPORTS)
- # build ical-glib-src-generator
- add_custom_command(
-   OUTPUT ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/ical-glib-src-generator
--  COMMAND /usr/bin/cc ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/generator.c ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/xml-parser.c -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/ -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 -o ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/ical-glib-src-generator
-+  COMMAND /usr/bin/cc ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/generator.c ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/xml-parser.c -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/ -l:libxml2.so -lglib-2.0 -o ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/ical-glib-src-generator
- )
- 
- list(APPEND API_FILES
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libical/template b/srcpkgs/libical/template
index f52a25c5756..73cfe495c1b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libical/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libical/template
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ build_style=cmake
 build_helper="gir qemu"
 configure_args="-DICAL_BUILD_DOCS=false
  $(vopt_if gir '-DGOBJECT_INTROSPECTION=true -DICAL_GLIB_VAPI=true')"
-hostmakedepends="gettext libglib-devel libxml2-devel perl pkg-config $(vopt_if gir vala)
- zlib-devel liblzma-devel icu-devel"
+hostmakedepends="gettext libglib-devel libxml2-devel perl pkg-config $(vopt_if gir vala)"
 makedepends="libglib-devel libxml2-devel $(vopt_if gir vala-devel)"
 checkdepends="python3-gobject"
 short_desc="Reference implementation of the iCalendar data type and format"