diff --git a/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-3.34.0.ebuild b/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-3.34.0.ebuild
index f1ea058fa16c9..7b6c3be70c771 100644
--- a/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-3.34.0.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-3.34.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/gjs-1.50
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.32:2
 	>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.35.9:=
-	>=dev-libs/libunistring-0.9.5
+	>=dev-libs/libunistring-0.9.5:=
 	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.20:3[introspection]
 	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2
 	>=x11-libs/pango-1.36[introspection]
diff --git a/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-40.0.ebuild b/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-40.0.ebuild
index 94bebfc72f112..11873061fbd93 100644
--- a/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-40.0.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-extra/gnome-characters/gnome-characters-40.0.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/gjs-1.50
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.32:2
 	>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.35.9:=
-	>=dev-libs/libunistring-0.9.5
+	>=dev-libs/libunistring-0.9.5:=
 	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.20:3[introspection]
 	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2
 	>=x11-libs/pango-1.36[introspection]