diff --git a/dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3.ebuild b/dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3.ebuild
rename to dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3-r1.ebuild
index 7684a0869cb63..dd013535f6552 100644
--- a/dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/spyder/spyder-5.0.3-r1.ebuild
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/qtawesome-1.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/qtconsole-5.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/QtPy-1.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP},pyqt5(+),svg,webengine]
+	sci-libs/rtree[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/sphinx-0.6.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/spyder-kernels-2.0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/spyder-kernels-2.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -150,6 +151,10 @@ python_prepare_all() {
 		-e '/pyqtwebengine/d' \
 			setup.py || die
 
+	# allow use of older rtree
+	sed -i -e 's/rtree>=0.9.7/rtree/g' \
+			setup.py || die
+
 	# do not check deps, fails because we removed pyqt5 dependency above
 	sed -i -e 's:test_dependencies_for_spyder_setup_install_requires_in_sync:_&:' \
 		spyder/tests/test_dependencies_in_sync.py || die