diff --git a/dev-ruby/mechanize/mechanize-2.7.6.ebuild b/dev-ruby/mechanize/mechanize-2.7.6.ebuild
index e13cfc7e14c70..b8d12cfab9492 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/mechanize/mechanize-2.7.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/mechanize/mechanize-2.7.6.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ ruby_add_bdepend ">=dev-ruby/hoe-3.7
 	test? ( dev-ruby/minitest:5 )"
 ruby_add_rdepend ">=dev-ruby/nokogiri-1.6
 	>=dev-ruby/net-http-digest_auth-1.1.1
-	>=dev-ruby/net-http-persistent-2.5.2
+	>=dev-ruby/net-http-persistent-2.5.2:*
 	>=dev-ruby/ntlm-http-0.1.1
 	>=dev-ruby/webrobots-0.0.9
 	>=dev-ruby/http-cookie-1.0.2