diff --git a/base/PKGBUILD b/base/PKGBUILD
index 712e7ce9..4527c913 100644
--- a/base/PKGBUILD
+++ b/base/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 pkgname=base
 pkgver=1
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc='Minimal package set to define a basic MSYS2 installation'
 url='https://www.msys2.org'
 arch=('any')
@@ -10,48 +10,38 @@ license=('GPL')
 depends=(
   'bash'
   'bash-completion'
-  'bsdcpio'
   'bsdtar'
   'bzip2'
   'coreutils'
   'curl'
   'dash'
-  'dtc'
   'file'
   'filesystem'
   'findutils'
-  'flex'
   'gawk'
-  'gcc-libs'
   'getent'
-  'getopt'
   'grep'
   'gzip'
   'inetutils'
   'info'
   'less'
-  'libargp'
-  'lndir'
   'mintty'
   'msys2-keyring'
   'msys2-launcher'
   'msys2-runtime'
-  'ncurses'
   'pacman'
   'pacman-mirrors'
-  'pactoys'
-  'pax'
-  'pkgfile'
   'rebase'
   'sed'
-  'tftp-hpa'
   'time'
-  'ttyrec'
   'tzcode'
   'util-linux'
   'wget'
   'which'
   'zstd'
 )
+
+# these should be empty, but saneman in CI complains, so we keep them here
+# until that is fixed:
 source=('README.md')
 sha256sums=('46702e24eebde5cf8fbb3d412a524736ef10d16e9c85efa0fc8d256cccf00484')