diff --git a/gui-wm/sway/sway-1.2.ebuild b/gui-wm/sway/sway-1.2.ebuild
index 7688622a24187..30f010c8638b1 100644
--- a/gui-wm/sway/sway-1.2.ebuild
+++ b/gui-wm/sway/sway-1.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ DEPEND="
 if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
 	DEPEND+="~gui-libs/wlroots-9999:=[elogind=,systemd=,X=]"
 else
-	DEPEND+=">=gui-libs/wlroots-0.7.0:=[elogind=,systemd=,X=]"
+	DEPEND+="
+	>=gui-libs/wlroots-0.7.0:=[elogind=,systemd=,X=]
+	<gui-libs/wlroots-0.9.0:=[elogind=,systemd=,X=]
+	"
 fi
 RDEPEND="
 	x11-misc/xkeyboard-config