diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 29c6b07b95..3470fc3cbe 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -2699,6 +2699,29 @@ By itself it is not a particularly interesting module by any measure, however
 it ties together a family of modern toolchain modules.")
     (license (package-license perl))))
 
+(define-public perl-extutils-depends
+  (package
+    (name "perl-extutils-depends")
+    (version "0.405")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append "mirror://cpan/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/"
+                                  "ExtUtils-Depends-" version ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "0b4ab9qmcihsfs2ajhn5qzg7nhazr68v3r0zvb7076smswd41mla"))))
+    (build-system perl-build-system)
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("perl-test-number-delta" ,perl-test-number-delta)))
+    (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-Depends")
+    (synopsis "Easily build XS extensions that depend on XS extensions")
+    (description
+     "This module tries to make it easy to build Perl extensions that use
+functions and typemaps provided by other perl extensions.  This means that a
+perl extension is treated like a shared library that provides also a C and an
+XS interface besides the perl one.")
+    (license (package-license perl))))
+
 (define-public perl-extutils-helpers
   (package
     (name "perl-extutils-helpers")