diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-tables/template b/srcpkgs/python3-tables/template
index e37b3e215e3..8be57ea0088 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-tables/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-tables/template
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=2
 build_style=python3-module
 build_helper=numpy
 # XXX: c-blosc (using internal for now)
-hostmakedepends="python3-wheel python3-Cython python3-packaging"
+hostmakedepends="python3-wheel python3-Cython0.29 python3-packaging"
 makedepends="python3-devel hdf5-devel lzo-devel bzip2-devel"
 depends="python3-numpy python3-numexpr python3-packaging"
 checkdepends=$depends