diff --git a/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0.ebuild b/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0.ebuild
rename to sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0-r1.ebuild
index 848ca8a9d83ef..a691a7af8f3e9 100644
--- a/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-4.49.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ BDEPEND="
 	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
 		dev-python/parameterized[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/timeout-decorator[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		sci-ml/pysentencepiece[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	')
 "