diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.28.2_rc1.ebuild b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.28.2_rc1.ebuild
index a203c5a71f006..c6d179d052bf5 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.28.2_rc1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.28.2_rc1.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ DIST_AUTHOR=XSAWYERX
 # Greatest first, don't include yourself
 # Devel point-releases are not ABI-intercompatible, but stable point releases are
 # BIN_OLDVERSEN is contains only C-ABI-intercompatible versions
-PERL_BIN_OLDVERSEN=""
+PERL_BIN_OLDVERSEN="5.28.0"
+
 if [[ "${PV##*.}" == "9999" ]]; then
 	DIST_VERSION=5.28.0
 else