diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
index b8cd1f620a..491f10dda0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRCREV = "86a5627dbeac8d9d9bc34326a758d6a477e876e4"
 SRC_URI = "git://git@gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/evemu.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-PV = "gitr"
+PV = "2.7.0+git"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig