diff --git a/sys-apps/miscfiles/miscfiles-1.5-r1.ebuild b/sys-apps/miscfiles/miscfiles-1.5-r1.ebuild
index f4a54b376ea7a..8639f7bcf2c32 100644
--- a/sys-apps/miscfiles/miscfiles-1.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/miscfiles/miscfiles-1.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI="3"
+EAPI="6"
 
 UNI_PV=6.1.0
 DESCRIPTION="Miscellaneous files"
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ RDEPEND="!<sys-freebsd/freebsd-share-7.2-r1"
 DEPEND="app-arch/xz-utils"
 
 src_prepare() {
+	default
 	mv "${WORKDIR}"/UnicodeData-${UNI_PV}.txt unicode || die
 }