diff --git a/zigmod.yml b/zigmod.yml
index 1636b3dd3468edd3f978a22d2cf3b7acd0303171..6b6ed5879e3c943aa8329a66caf017e92373f42c 100644
--- a/zigmod.yml
+++ b/zigmod.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ license: MIT
 description: An implementation of International Components for Unicode in only Zig
 dependencies:
   - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-unicode-ucd
+
+root_dependencies:
   - src: git https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
     id: w3gat1zdicytwwvxn7rqgs0a9wgv7om530itr1t7
     keep: true