diff --git a/app-text/epubgrep/epubgrep-0.6.0-r1.ebuild b/app-text/epubgrep/epubgrep-0.6.0-r1.ebuild
index f230e271d9..b7f322ed51 100644
--- a/app-text/epubgrep/epubgrep-0.6.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/epubgrep/epubgrep-0.6.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2021-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/boost[nls]
 	app-arch/libarchive[bzip2,iconv,lzma,zlib(+)]
-	dev-libs/libfmt
+	<dev-libs/libfmt-9.0.0
 	dev-libs/pugixml
 "
 DEPEND="
 	${RDEPEND}
 	dev-cpp/termcolor
 	dev-cpp/nlohmann_json
-	test? ( dev-cpp/catch )
+	test? ( <dev-cpp/catch-3.0.0 )
 "
 BDEPEND="
 	sys-devel/gettext