diff --git a/dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1.ebuild
index f6d881776afea..b56abe91cdc62 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1.ebuild
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
+ruby_add_bdepend "test? ( >=dev-ruby/minitest-5.3:5 )"
+
 each_ruby_test() {
 	${RUBY} -Ilib:test:. -e 'Dir["test/test_*.rb"].each{|f| require f}' || die
 }