diff --git a/dev-php/phptal/phptal-1.3.1.ebuild b/dev-php/phptal/phptal-1.3.1.ebuild
index 041baa9a91d1f..852ecd7ec345a 100644
--- a/dev-php/phptal/phptal-1.3.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-php/phptal/phptal-1.3.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ IUSE="test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 RDEPEND="dev-lang/php:*"
-DEPEND="test? ( ${RDEPEND} dev-php/phpunit )"
+DEPEND="test? ( ${RDEPEND} <dev-php/phpunit-6 )"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${PHP_LIB_NAME}-${PV}"