diff --git a/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0.ebuild
rename to dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0-r1.ebuild
index 3d394e7d0d851..964934d3abcfe 100644
--- a/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.5.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~spar
 PROPERTIES="test_network"
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-RDEPEND=">=dev-python/pycares-4.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="<dev-python/pycares-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0.ebuild b/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 93%
rename from dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0.ebuild
rename to dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0-r1.ebuild
index d74a57cfb2067..6ed0325a1476b 100644
--- a/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/aiodns/aiodns-3.6.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390
 PROPERTIES="test? ( test_network )"
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-RDEPEND=">=dev-python/pycares-4.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="<dev-python/pycares-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( pytest-asyncio )