diff --git a/dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12.ebuild b/dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12-r1.ebuild
similarity index 86%
rename from dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12.ebuild
rename to dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12-r1.ebuild
index d33a914e745d6..bef9ce1ee62ae 100644
--- a/dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/freezegun/freezegun-0.3.12-r1.ebuild
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ PATCHES=(
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
+python_prepare_all() {
+	sed -r \
+		-e 's:(python-dateutil)>=2.0:\1:' \
+		-e "s:'(python-dateutil)>=[0-9.]+,.+':'\1':" \
+		-i setup.py
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
 python_prepare() {
 	# optional and only works with python3
 	if ! python_is_python3; then