diff --git a/community/grpc/PKGBUILD b/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
index 814a90c47..f9f1e066a 100644
--- a/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ pkgbase='grpc'
 pkgname=('grpc' 'python-grpcio' 'php-grpc' 'php7-grpc' 'grpc-cli')
 pkgver=1.43.0
 _gtestver=c9ccac7cb7345901884aabf5d1a786cfa6e2f397
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="High performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first."
 arch=('x86_64')
 url='https://grpc.io'
 license=('BSD')
 makedepends=('re2' 're2c' 'protobuf' 'php' 'php7' 'c-ares' 'openssl' 'chrpath' 'cython'
              'cmake' 'benchmark' 'python-setuptools' 'abseil-cpp' 'ninja')
+checkdepends=('python-six')
 source=("https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v$pkgver/$pkgbase-$pkgver.tar.gz"
         "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/$_gtestver/googletest-$_gtestver.tar.gz"
         "python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch")
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ package_grpc() {
 
 package_python-grpcio() {
   pkgdesc='Python language bindings for grpc, remote procedure call (RPC) framework'
-  depends=('c-ares' 'python' 're2' 'abseil-cpp')
+  depends=('c-ares' 'python' 'python-six' 're2' 'abseil-cpp')
 
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver"
   python setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root="$pkgdir"