diff --git a/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.11.ebuild b/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.11.ebuild
index 6ce06e3fb52e4..1e18d923497b2 100644
--- a/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.11.ebuild
+++ b/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.11.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 DEPEND="dev-python/numpy"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
 	dev-python/PyQt4[X,svg]
-	fits? ( virtual/pyfits )"
+	fits? ( dev-python/pyfits )"
 
 PYTHON_CFLAGS=("2.* + -fno-strict-aliasing")
 
diff --git a/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.23.ebuild b/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.23.ebuild
index ab725155c8332..42bfe9dd4286f 100644
--- a/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.23.ebuild
+++ b/sci-visualization/veusz/veusz-1.23.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ CDEPEND="
 RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}
 	dbus? ( dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
 	emf? ( dev-python/pyemf[$(python_gen_usedep 'python2*')] )
-	fits? ( virtual/pyfits[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	fits? ( dev-python/astropy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
 	hdf5? ( dev-python/h5py[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
 	minuit? ( dev-python/pyminuit[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
 	vo? (