diff --git a/net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r1.ebuild b/net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r2.ebuild
similarity index 96%
rename from net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r1.ebuild
rename to net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r2.ebuild
index d1a3710051eec..2a17573a1dd59 100644
--- a/net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/net-libs/rest/rest-0.9.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.44.0:2
 	>=net-libs/libsoup-2.99.2:3.0
 	dev-libs/json-glib:0[introspection?]
-	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	dev-libs/libxml2:2=
 	app-misc/ca-certificates
 	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.74.0:= )
 "