diff --git a/dev-ruby/multi_json/multi_json-1.12.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/multi_json/multi_json-1.12.2.ebuild
index 28c6df5238811..27c74c2cdc548 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/multi_json/multi_json-1.12.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/multi_json/multi_json-1.12.2.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd6
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE=""
 
-ruby_add_rdepend "|| ( >=dev-ruby/json-1.4 >=dev-ruby/yajl-ruby-1.0 )"
+ruby_add_rdepend "|| ( >=dev-ruby/json-1.4:* >=dev-ruby/yajl-ruby-1.0 )"
 
 ruby_add_bdepend "doc? ( dev-ruby/rspec:3 dev-ruby/yard )"