diff --git a/virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0.ebuild b/virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 82%
rename from virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0.ebuild
rename to virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0-r1.ebuild
index 8b432d3576ff7..1663c63d8d802 100644
--- a/virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0.ebuild
+++ b/virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.222.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.42.2 ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
+	|| ( =dev-lang/perl-5.44* ~dev-lang/perl-5.42.2 ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
 	dev-lang/perl:=
 	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
 	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999