diff --git a/build-dev-tarball.sh b/build-dev-tarball.sh
index 4f16187..5cc25fc 100755
--- a/build-dev-tarball.sh
+++ b/build-dev-tarball.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ set -e
 #   libtoolize.at: "14: verbatim aclocal.m4 w/o AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS"
 # fails.
 git clone --depth 2 -b "$branch" https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/"$package".git
-git clone --depth 1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git
+git clone --depth 5 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git
 
 (cd gnulib && git checkout 035e164bb016481ffe5e9f6b8be189bcdc41b0dd)