diff --git a/app-editors/qhexedit2/qhexedit2-0.8.6_p20190316.ebuild b/app-editors/qhexedit2/qhexedit2-0.8.6_p20190316.ebuild
index 0fb05349bf5ee..bc6a9f42909ea 100644
--- a/app-editors/qhexedit2/qhexedit2-0.8.6_p20190316.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/qhexedit2/qhexedit2-0.8.6_p20190316.ebuild
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
 	python? (
 		dev-python/PyQt5[gui,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/sip[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		<dev-python/sip-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		${PYTHON_DEPS}
 		)
 "