diff --git a/www/p5-URI/Makefile b/www/p5-URI/Makefile
index fd819b61fa3a..d4f037c83e33 100644
--- a/www/p5-URI/Makefile
+++ b/www/p5-URI/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2001/05/14 13:30:54 zuntum Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.11 2001/09/27 04:51:45 jlam Exp $
 #
 
 DISTNAME=	URI-1.12
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=URI/}
 MAINTAINER=	packages@netbsd.org
 COMMENT=	Perl5 class to represent Uniform Resource Identifier (URI, RFC 2396)
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	p5-MIME-Base64-2.12:../../converters/p5-MIME-Base64
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	p5-MIME-Base64>=2.12:../../converters/p5-MIME-Base64
 
 CONFLICTS+=	p5-libwww-5.36	# URI used to be part of that package