diff --git a/CHANGES/9166.bugfix b/CHANGES/9166.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8510f4efd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/9166.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fix the "markuppy" `pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound` error on the task
+`pulp_common : Collect static content`.
+This occurs when installing from RPM packages on EL8 (ever since EPEL8 released
+python-tablib-3.0.0-1.el8 on approximately 2021-07-23).
diff --git a/roles/pulp_common/defaults/main.yml b/roles/pulp_common/defaults/main.yml
index 40215b740..de764f7fc 100644
--- a/roles/pulp_common/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pulp_common/defaults/main.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ pulp_pkg_undeclared_deps:
   - pulpcore-selinux
   - python3-djangorestframework
   - python3-djangorestframework-queryfields
+  - python3-markuppy  # Because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986965
 pulp_pkg_upgrade_all: false
 pulp_upgraded_manually: false