diff --git a/app-arch/dpkg/dpkg-1.18.4.ebuild b/app-arch/dpkg/dpkg-1.18.4.ebuild
index 311ef8d35647a..9fd8b48d22f4a 100644
--- a/app-arch/dpkg/dpkg-1.18.4.ebuild
+++ b/app-arch/dpkg/dpkg-1.18.4.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ IUSE="+bzip2 +lzma nls selinux test unicode +update-alternatives +zlib"
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-lang/perl-5.6.0:=
 	dev-perl/TimeDate
-	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r7
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r7:=
 	bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 )
 	lzma? ( app-arch/xz-utils )
 	selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )