diff --git a/dev-python/bottleneck/bottleneck-1.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/bottleneck/bottleneck-1.5.0.ebuild
index f69967a2aa4fd..d507b0ab5d0eb 100644
--- a/dev-python/bottleneck/bottleneck-1.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/bottleneck/bottleneck-1.5.0.ebuild
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ DEPEND="
 RDEPEND="
 	${DEPEND}
 "
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/versioneer[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
@@ -33,6 +36,8 @@ src_prepare() {
 	# don't overwrites user's optimization level
 	sed -e '/extra_compile_args=\["-O2"\]/d' -i setup.py || die
 
+	rm versioneer.py || die
+
 	distutils-r1_src_prepare
 }