diff --git a/app-containers/nvidia-container-toolkit/nvidia-container-toolkit-1.19.0.ebuild b/app-containers/nvidia-container-toolkit/nvidia-container-toolkit-1.19.0.ebuild
index 9611a3f953c3f..d9cdded377c4e 100644
--- a/app-containers/nvidia-container-toolkit/nvidia-container-toolkit-1.19.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-containers/nvidia-container-toolkit/nvidia-container-toolkit-1.19.0.ebuild
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ RDEPEND="
 	~sys-libs/libnvidia-container-${PV}
 "
 
+# go.mod requires a newer Go than go-module.eclass guarantees (bug 976194)
+BDEPEND=">=dev-lang/go-1.25.0"
+
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.19.0-no-prestrip.patch"
 )