diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
index 98edb93761f..65c67ddc721 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
@@ -35,23 +35,19 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON:prepend:class-nativesdk = "${@['', '${GIRMESONBUILD}'][d.getVar('G
 
 # Generating introspection data depends on a combination of native and target
 # introspection tools, and qemu to run the target tools.
-DEPENDS:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', 'gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-native qemu-native', '', d)}"
+DEPENDS:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', 'gobject-introspection qemu-native', '', d)}"
 
-# Even though introspection is disabled on -native, gobject-introspection package is still
-# needed for m4 macros.
-DEPENDS:append:class-native = " gobject-introspection-native"
-DEPENDS:append:class-nativesdk = " gobject-introspection-native"
+# Even when introspection is disabled, the gobject-introspection package is still needed for m4 macros.
+DEPENDS:append = " gobject-introspection-native"
 
 # This is used by introspection tools to find .gir includes
 export XDG_DATA_DIRS = "${STAGING_DATADIR}:${STAGING_LIBDIR}"
 
 do_configure:prepend:class-target () {
-    if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', '1', '0', d)}" = "1" ] ; then
-        # introspection.m4 pre-packaged with upstream tarballs does not yet
-        # have our fixes
-        mkdir -p ${S}/m4
-        cp ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/${datadir}/aclocal/introspection.m4 ${S}/m4
-    fi
+    # introspection.m4 pre-packaged with upstream tarballs does not yet
+    # have our fixes
+    mkdir -p ${S}/m4
+    cp ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/${datadir}/aclocal/introspection.m4 ${S}/m4
 }
 
 # .typelib files are needed at runtime and so they go to the main package (so