diff --git a/src/util/testdb.c b/src/util/testdb.c
index 7b08cb0d..073acc3b 100644
--- a/src/util/testdb.c
+++ b/src/util/testdb.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int check_deps(alpm_list_t *pkglist)
 	alpm_list_t *data, *i;
 	int ret = 0;
 	/* check dependencies */
-	data = alpm_checkdeps(handle, pkglist, NULL, pkglist, 0);
+	data = alpm_checkdeps(handle, NULL, NULL, pkglist, 0);
 	for(i = data; i; i = alpm_list_next(i)) {
 		alpm_depmissing_t *miss = i->data;
 		char *depstring = alpm_dep_compute_string(miss->depend);