diff --git a/virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0.ebuild b/virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 80%
rename from virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0.ebuild
rename to virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0-r1.ebuild
index da3e0b51bc842..d0a8ee297295c 100644
--- a/virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0.ebuild
+++ b/virtual/perl-Test-Harness/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
+	|| ( =dev-lang/perl-5.42* ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
 	dev-lang/perl:=
 	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
 	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999