diff --git a/app-misc/tmuxp/files/tmuxp-1.7.2-relax-click-dep.patch b/app-misc/tmuxp/files/tmuxp-1.7.2-relax-click-dep.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e3f5772e92b3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/tmuxp/files/tmuxp-1.7.2-relax-click-dep.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
+index fb2ab61..17e3516 100644
+--- a/requirements/base.txt
++++ b/requirements/base.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+ kaptan>=0.5.10
+ libtmux>=0.8,<0.9
+-click>=7,<8
++click>=7
+ colorama>=0.3.9
diff --git a/app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2.ebuild b/app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 95%
rename from app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2.ebuild
rename to app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2-r1.ebuild
index 55ed4f164af48..25dcf9b50b9de 100644
--- a/app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2.ebuild
+++ b/app-misc/tmuxp/tmuxp-1.7.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/libtmux-0.8.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/libtmux-0.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/click-7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	<dev-python/click-8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/colorama-0.3.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/tmuxp-1.6.4-tests.patch"
 	"${FILESDIR}/tmuxp-1.7.2-tests.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/tmuxp-1.7.2-relax-click-dep.patch"
 )
 
 distutils_enable_tests --install pytest