diff --git a/git-annex.cabal b/git-annex.cabal
index 7be78053f8..d701cd6999 100644
--- a/git-annex.cabal
+++ b/git-annex.cabal
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Executable git-annex
   Main-Is: git-annex.hs
   Build-Depends: MissingH, hslogger, directory, filepath,
    unix, containers, utf8-string, network, mtl, bytestring, old-locale, time,
-   pcre-light, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, hS3, HTTP,
-   base < 5, monad-control, json
+   pcre-light, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, hS3, json, HTTP,
+   base < 5, monad-control, transformers-base, lifted-base
 
 Executable git-annex-shell
   Main-Is: git-annex-shell.hs