diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 82333e1a6e..c576cdb686 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
       - rsync
       # For staging the release candidate composes
       - compose-utils
+      # for comps
+      - python3-xmltodict
     state: present
   tags:
   - packages