diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-asciidoc.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-asciidoc.txt
index 6e21786962..0c10fd124a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-asciidoc.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-asciidoc.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ information is (assuming the document name is +foo+) :
   to one or more directories containing so-called resources (like CSS or
   images). By default, empty.
 
+* +FOO_DEPENDENCIES+, optional, the list of packages (most probably,
+  host-packages) that must be built before building this document.
+
 There are also additional hooks (see xref:hooks[] for general information
 on hooks), that a document may set to define extra actions to be done at
 various steps:
diff --git a/package/doc-asciidoc.mk b/package/doc-asciidoc.mk
index 4f765b8856..cb6e616603 100644
--- a/package/doc-asciidoc.mk
+++ b/package/doc-asciidoc.mk
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ endef
 ################################################################################
 define ASCIIDOC
 # Single line, because splitting a foreach is not easy...
-$(1)-check-dependencies: asciidoc-check-dependencies
+$(1)-check-dependencies: asciidoc-check-dependencies $$($(2)_DEPENDENCIES)
 	$$(Q)$$(foreach hook,$$($(2)_CHECK_DEPENDENCIES_HOOKS),$$(call $$(hook))$$(sep))
 
 # Single line, because splitting a foreach is not easy...