diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/root/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/root/package.py
index 309d1ee6108..615e345d04d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/root/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/root/package.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ class Root(CMakePackage):
     )
     # depends_on('intel-tbb@:2021.0', when='@:6.22 ^intel-tbb')
     depends_on("unuran", when="+unuran")
-    depends_on("vc", when="+vc")
+    depends_on("vc@1.3.0", when="+vc")
     depends_on("vdt", when="+vdt")
     depends_on("veccore", when="+veccore")
     depends_on("libxml2", when="+xml")