diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 1d9df9e..3011edb 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+^CRAN-RELEASE$
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.travis\.yml$
diff --git a/CRAN-RELEASE b/CRAN-RELEASE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..263ca7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CRAN-RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+This package was submitted to CRAN on 2019-01-20.
+Once it is accepted, delete this file and tag the release (commit e42d295063).
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0f15b29..acd5790 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ Suggests:
     gcookbook,
     clipr,
     vdiffr,
-    svglite,
-    gdtools
+    svglite
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.2.0)
 Imports:
@@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ Imports:
     rmarkdown,
     htmltools,
     tools,
-    magrittr
+    magrittr,
+    gdtools
 RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 66ace06..c0fdb0e 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@
 
 - new fonts, a new white theme and a new dark theme
 - fixed typos in documentation
-- resubmitted after errors noted on https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/hrbrthemes_0.6.0_20190120_223916/Windows/00check.log
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+- resubmitted after errors noted on https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/hrbrthemes_0.6.0_20190120_223916/Windows/00check.log
+- re-re-submitted (gdtools in the right place now)
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