diff --git a/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-3.28.3.ebuild b/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-3.28.3.ebuild
index 59a56b471d05d..dc92b0ddf3f05 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-3.28.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-3.28.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	cairo? ( x11-libs/cairo[glib] )
 	test? (
 		dev-libs/atk[introspection]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
 		media-fonts/font-misc-misc
 		x11-libs/cairo[glib]
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ src_test() {
 
 	testing() {
 		local -x XDG_CACHE_HOME="${T}/${EPYTHON}"
-		emake -C "${BUILD_DIR}" check
+		emake -C "${BUILD_DIR}" check || die "emake check failed"
 	}
 	virtx python_foreach_impl testing
 }