diff --git a/srcpkgs/valabind-git/template b/srcpkgs/valabind-git/template
index 8c560130b7..1a5da71a41 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/valabind-git/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/valabind-git/template
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ noextract=yes
 provides="valabind-9999"
 replaces="valabind>=0"
 build_style=gnu-makefile
-depends="glib-devel vala-devel"
-makedepends="git pkg-config vala-devel glib-devel"
+depends="glib-devel vala-devel>=0.18"
+makedepends="git pkg-config vala-devel>=0.18 glib-devel"
 short_desc="Tool to transform vala source files to swig, GIR or GEAR (git snapshot)"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-3"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/valabind-git/valabind-git.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/valabind-git/valabind-git.rshlibs
index 0bb56523bc..e5035e2e32 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/valabind-git/valabind-git.rshlibs
+++ b/srcpkgs/valabind-git/valabind-git.rshlibs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-libvala-0.16.so.0
+libvala-0.18.so.0
 libgobject-2.0.so.0
 libglib-2.0.so.0
 libc.so.6