diff --git a/dev-python/attrs/attrs-17.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/attrs/attrs-17.4.0.ebuild
index 08e27b3718ae7..d3fb2ff39a355 100644
--- a/dev-python/attrs/attrs-17.4.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/attrs/attrs-17.4.0.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ DEPEND="
 	${RDEPEND}
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	test? (
-		dev-lang/python[sqlite]
+		$(python_gen_impl_dep sqlite)
 		>=dev-python/hypothesis-3.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)"