diff --git a/package/docker-cli/docker-cli.mk b/package/docker-cli/docker-cli.mk
index 1466b0afbd..9ef1270137 100644
--- a/package/docker-cli/docker-cli.mk
+++ b/package/docker-cli/docker-cli.mk
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ DOCKER_CLI_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 
 DOCKER_CLI_TAGS = autogen
 DOCKER_CLI_BUILD_TARGETS = cmd/docker
+DOCKER_CLI_GOMOD = github.com/docker/cli
 
 DOCKER_CLI_LDFLAGS = \
-	-X github.com/docker/cli/cli.GitCommit=$(DOCKER_CLI_VERSION) \
-	-X github.com/docker/cli/cli.Version=$(DOCKER_CLI_VERSION)
+	-X $(DOCKER_CLI_GOMOD)/cli.GitCommit=$(DOCKER_CLI_VERSION) \
+	-X $(DOCKER_CLI_GOMOD)/cli.Version=$(DOCKER_CLI_VERSION)
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_DOCKER_CLI_STATIC),y)
 DOCKER_CLI_LDFLAGS += -extldflags '-static'