diff --git a/app-doc/devmanual/devmanual-9999.ebuild b/app-doc/devmanual/devmanual-9999.ebuild
index ee276582c68f0..43a09c7515e2d 100644
--- a/app-doc/devmanual/devmanual-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-doc/devmanual/devmanual-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 IUSE="+offline test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
-BDEPEND="dev-libs/libxml2
+BDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.12
 	dev-libs/libxslt
 	gnome-base/librsvg
 	media-fonts/open-sans