diff --git a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.2.ebuild b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.2.ebuild
index 738007c75cbf7..4c6c70ee45092 100644
--- a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.2.ebuild
+++ b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.2.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs libtool multilib-minimal
 
 if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git"
-	inherit git-2 autotools
+	inherit git-r3 autotools
 	SRC_URI=""
 	EXTRA_DEPEND="sys-devel/gettext dev-vcs/cvs >=sys-devel/libtool-2" #272880 286068
 else
diff --git a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.3.ebuild b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.3.ebuild
index 219b2145b252d..85c206c9bd130 100644
--- a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.3.ebuild
+++ b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.2.3.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs libtool multilib-minimal
 
 if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git"
-	inherit git-2 autotools
+	inherit git-r3 autotools
 	SRC_URI=""
 	EXTRA_DEPEND="sys-devel/gettext dev-vcs/cvs >=sys-devel/libtool-2" #272880 286068
 else
diff --git a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-9999.ebuild b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-9999.ebuild
index 26f34b6536a24..774c19a2aeff3 100644
--- a/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-9999.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs libtool multilib-minimal
 
 if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git"
-	inherit git-2 autotools
+	inherit git-r3 autotools
 	SRC_URI=""
 	EXTRA_DEPEND="sys-devel/gettext dev-vcs/cvs >=sys-devel/libtool-2" #272880 286068
 else