diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.36.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.36.0.bb
index 3bc975a6fa..a32ea9b550 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.36.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.36.0.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
 inherit gnomebase gobject-introspection gtk-doc gtk-icon-cache features_check
 
 ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES = "${GTK3DISTROFEATURES}"
+# FIXME: When upgrading to libpeas 2, g-i is no longer needed.
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-Remove-builddir-and-srcdir-paths-from-test-binaries.patch"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "297cb9c2cccd8e8617623d1a3e8415b4530b8e5a893e3527bbfd1edd13237b4c"
@@ -25,5 +27,3 @@ FILES:${PN}-demo = " \
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-python3 = "python3-pygobject"
 FILES:${PN}-python3 = "${libdir}/libpeas-1.0/loaders/libpython3loader.so"
-
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"