diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/inflect/inflect-7.0.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/inflect/inflect-7.0.0.ebuild
index 24d03c1056..2081c97362 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/inflect/inflect-7.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/inflect/inflect-7.0.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@ BDEPEND="
 "
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	# broken upstream
+	# https://github.com/jaraco/inflect/issues/204
+	inflect/__init__.py::inflect.engine.compare
+)