diff --git a/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py b/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
index b419bf67e945..9ab6673ad375 100644
--- a/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
+++ b/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
@@ -600,12 +600,8 @@ def checkDependencies(self,baseurl):
         if not depsurl.endswith("/"):
             depsurl += "/"
         depsurl += "master/metadata.txt"
-        try:
-            mu = urlopen(depsurl)
-        except:
-            # no metadata.txt, we just continue without deps checking
-            pass
-        else:
+        mu = urlopen(depsurl)
+        if mu:
             # metadata.txt found
             depsfile = mu.read()
             mu.close()