diff --git a/hbase-server/pom.xml b/hbase-server/pom.xml
index 647ea3b4174..cca1a336a53 100644
--- a/hbase-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-server/pom.xml
@@ -414,6 +414,12 @@
       <artifactId>hbase-metrics</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <!-- resource bundle only needed at build time -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-resource-bundle</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <optional>true</optional>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>