diff --git a/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask b/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask
index bfd1649459c2b..10e18dec100ee 100644
--- a/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (1 Dec 2017)
 # The following packages require GCC 5 or earlier and are therefore
 # masked in the 17.0 profiles.
-app-text/pdftk
+=app-text/pdftk-2*
 dev-java/ecj-gcj
 dev-java/gcj-jdk
 <dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9