diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.8.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.8.9.bb
index b1eee6a4cb..a6ef3d491c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.8.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.8.9.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Subversion (svn) version control system client"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-DEPENDS = "apr-util neon sqlite3 file"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "neon"
+DEPENDS = "apr-util serf sqlite3 file"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "serf"
 LICENSE = "Apache-2"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://subversion.tigris.org"