diff --git a/setup/html_text/setup.py b/setup/html_text/setup.py
index 28c57bb6403..bc61a27e2eb 100644
--- a/setup/html_text/setup.py
+++ b/setup/html_text/setup.py
@@ -2,5 +2,9 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     setup_requires=['setuptools-odoo'],
-    odoo_addon=True,
+    odoo_addon={
+        "external_dependencies_override": {
+            "lxml.html": "lxml",
+        }
+    },
 )