diff --git a/app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5.ebuild b/app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5-r1.ebuild
similarity index 89%
rename from app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5.ebuild
rename to app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5-r1.ebuild
index b78c5f849705..313b5a3fde07 100644
--- a/app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5.ebuild
+++ b/app-emacs/visual-basic-mode/visual-basic-mode-1.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
 inherit elisp
 
 DESCRIPTION="A mode for editing Visual Basic programs"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VisualBasicMode"
+
 # taken from https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/${PN}.el
 SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/distfiles/${P}.el.xz"