diff --git a/dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 91%
rename from dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0.ebuild
rename to dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0-r1.ebuild
index 7eb8b803ee3e7..3cbf876773282 100644
--- a/dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/gdl/gdl-3.40.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x8
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/glib:2
 	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.0:3[introspection?]
-	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.4:2
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.4:2=
 	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-0.6.7:= )
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}