diff --git a/dev-ml/astring/astring-0.8.5.ebuild b/dev-ml/astring/astring-0.8.5.ebuild
index d6aaf301a39f..23a28ffd7746 100644
--- a/dev-ml/astring/astring-0.8.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ml/astring/astring-0.8.5.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -13,14 +13,11 @@ LICENSE="ISC"
 SLOT="0/${PV}"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86"
 
-OCAML_DEP=">=dev-lang/ocaml-4.05.0:="
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-ml/ocamlbuild
 	dev-ml/findlib
 	dev-ml/topkg
-	${OCAML_DEP}
 "
-RDEPEND="${OCAML_DEP}"
 
 src_compile() {
 	ocaml pkg/pkg.ml build || die