diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm64/package.use.mask b/profiles/arch/arm64/package.use.mask
index c4b8e0b8d3484..48346e6c35774 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/arm64/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/arm64/package.use.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Volkmar W. Pogatzki <gentoo@pogatzki.net> (2022-08-25)
+# Mask tests until test dependencies are keyworded.
+app-text/pdftk test
+
 # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2022-07-08)
 # Unmask galera for dev-db/mariadb
 >=dev-db/mariadb-10.1.0 -galera