diff --git a/dev-python/rebulk/rebulk-9999.ebuild b/dev-python/rebulk/rebulk-9999.ebuild
index 3eb36b6705b83..8ec8efb83b93e 100644
--- a/dev-python/rebulk/rebulk-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/rebulk/rebulk-9999.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
 
 DESCRIPTION="Python library that performs advanced searches in strings"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Toilal/rebulk https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rebulk"
-EGIT_REPO_URI="git://github.com/Toilal/${PN}.git"
+EGIT_REPO_URI=( {https,git}://github.com/Toilal/${PN}.git )
 
 LICENSE="MIT Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"