diff --git a/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7.ebuild b/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7-r1.ebuild
similarity index 96%
rename from dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7.ebuild
rename to dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7-r1.ebuild
index 127cb53319b6a..4151e90e6efce 100644
--- a/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-7.3.7-r1.ebuild
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ RDEPEND="
 	)
 	!dev-python/namespace-sphinxcontrib
 "
+# added temporarily because of unconditional import in sphinx.testing.util
+# until we figure out how to deal with it better
+RDEPEND+="
+	dev-python/defusedxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
 BDEPEND="
 	doc? (
 		dev-python/sphinxcontrib-websupport[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]