diff --git a/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.2.8.ebuild b/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.2.8.ebuild
index ea823baba12b3..098f0e500a742 100644
--- a/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.2.8.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.2.8.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="!app-text/zathura-pdf-poppler
 	>=app-text/mupdf-1.7a:=
+	<app-text/mupdf-1.9a:=
 	>=app-text/zathura-0.3.1
 	media-libs/jbig2dec:=
 	media-libs/openjpeg:2=
diff --git a/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.0.ebuild b/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.0.ebuild
index 653df8747a097..ccdeb880eba19 100644
--- a/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.0.ebuild
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="!app-text/zathura-pdf-poppler
 	>=app-text/mupdf-1.7a:=
+	<app-text/mupdf-1.9a:=
 	>=app-text/zathura-0.3.1
 	media-libs/jbig2dec:=
 	media-libs/openjpeg:2=