diff --git a/DEPENDS-docs.txt b/DEPENDS-docs.txt
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+####################################################################
+# Additional dependencies necessary to build package documentation #
+####################################################################
+-r DEPENDS.txt
+scikit-image
+matplotlib
diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
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--- a/requirements-docs.txt
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--r requirements.txt
-scikit-image
-matplotlib