diff --git a/dev-haskell/uuid-types/uuid-types-1.0.3.ebuild b/dev-haskell/uuid-types/uuid-types-1.0.3.ebuild
index caef74d63e065..67a2fa8f071d7 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/uuid-types/uuid-types-1.0.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-haskell/uuid-types/uuid-types-1.0.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -27,8 +27,15 @@ RDEPEND=">=dev-haskell/binary-0.4:=[profile?] <dev-haskell/binary-0.9:=[profile?
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	>=dev-haskell/cabal-1.8
 	test? ( >=dev-haskell/hunit-1.2 <dev-haskell/hunit-1.4
-		>=dev-haskell/quickcheck-2.4 <dev-haskell/quickcheck-2.9
+		>=dev-haskell/quickcheck-2.4
 		>=dev-haskell/tasty-0.10 <dev-haskell/tasty-0.12
 		>=dev-haskell/tasty-hunit-0.9 <dev-haskell/tasty-hunit-0.10
 		>=dev-haskell/tasty-quickcheck-0.8 <dev-haskell/tasty-quickcheck-0.9 )
 "
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	cabal_chdeps \
+		'QuickCheck >=2.4 && < 2.9' 'QuickCheck >=2.4'
+}