diff --git a/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.0.ebuild b/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.0.ebuild
index f1c00942c9d01..e28966aade467 100644
--- a/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.0.ebuild
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions MIT MPL-2.0 Unicode-DFS-2016"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
 
+BDEPEND=">=virtual/rust-1.76.0"
+
 QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/lib.*/py.*/site-packages/rpds/rpds.*.so"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.1.ebuild b/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.1.ebuild
index 2e15fcaff7b2f..2828cf5261da6 100644
--- a/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/rpds-py/rpds-py-0.19.1.ebuild
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions MIT MPL-2.0 Unicode-DFS-2016"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
 
+BDEPEND="
+	>=virtual/rust-1.76.0
+"
+
 QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/lib.*/py.*/site-packages/rpds/rpds.*.so"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest