diff --git a/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0.ebuild b/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 95%
rename from mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0.ebuild
rename to mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0-r1.ebuild
index 823f75f582bc9..b5da4e0420168 100644
--- a/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0.ebuild
+++ b/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ COMMON_DEPEND="
 	>=dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.8:3.0
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.56:2
 	dev-libs/libsigc++:2
-	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2:2
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2:2=
 	>=gnome-base/libgtop-2.37.2:2=
 	>=gnome-base/librsvg-2.35:2
 	x11-libs/cairo
diff --git a/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1.ebuild b/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1-r1.ebuild
similarity index 95%
rename from mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1.ebuild
rename to mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1-r1.ebuild
index 33bee63b0332b..c46847f8a9b0d 100644
--- a/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1.ebuild
+++ b/mate-extra/mate-system-monitor/mate-system-monitor-1.28.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ COMMON_DEPEND="
 	>=dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.8:3.0
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.56:2
 	dev-libs/libsigc++:2
-	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2:2
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2:2=
 	>=gnome-base/libgtop-2.37.2:2=
 	>=gnome-base/librsvg-2.35:2
 	x11-libs/cairo