diff --git a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-1.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-1.8.0.ebuild
index 79517ee461787..cd9989093564c 100644
--- a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-1.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-1.8.0.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND=">=dev-python/urllib3-1.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		<dev-python/urllib3-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 
 DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/sphinx-1.3.1-r1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	test? ( ${RDEPEND}
 		>=dev-python/requests-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		<dev-python/requests-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]