diff --git a/dev-python/urllib3/urllib3-1.26.6.ebuild b/dev-python/urllib3/urllib3-1.26.6.ebuild
index c71c6adc940bc..4ea114ec7e7e5 100644
--- a/dev-python/urllib3/urllib3-1.26.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/urllib3/urllib3-1.26.6.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 7 -- sys-apps/portage dep
 EAPI=7
 
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )