diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/git-series/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/git-series/default.nix
index d2bc539860b3..7e126b3d112c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/git-series/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/git-series/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, rustPlatform, openssl, cmake, perl, pkgconfig, zlib, curl, libgit2 }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, rustPlatform
+, openssl, cmake, perl, pkgconfig, zlib, curl, libgit2, libssh2
+}:
 
 with rustPlatform;
 
@@ -28,8 +30,9 @@ buildRustPackage rec {
   ];
 
   LIBGIT2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG = true;
+  LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG = true;
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig perl ];
-  buildInputs = [ openssl zlib curl libgit2 ];
+  buildInputs = [ openssl zlib curl libgit2 libssh2 ];
 
   postBuild = ''
     install -D "$src/git-series.1" "$out/man/man1/git-series.1"