diff --git a/srcpkgs/pandoc/template b/srcpkgs/pandoc/template
index 153fb4f2a86..fc02ba90687 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pandoc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pandoc/template
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ make_build_args="
  --flag=hslua:system-lua --flag=hslua:pkg-config"
 stackage="lts-16.0"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config unzip wget"
-makedepends="zlib-devel lua-devel"
+makedepends="zlib-devel lua53-devel"
 short_desc="Universal converter between markup formats (with citeproc support)"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, BSD-3-Clause, MIT"