diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index fbf3a39b15..eb292c51d4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ do_install:append:mingw32() {
         rm -f ${D}${bindir}/gtester-report
 }
 
-CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS = "python3 python3-distutils python3-xml"
+# remove setuptools dependency when usage of distutils is dropped in
+# https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py
+CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS = "python3 python3-setuptools python3-xml"
 CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS:mingw32 = ""
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-codegen += "${CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS}"