diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ecp-data-vis-sdk/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ecp-data-vis-sdk/package.py
index 542c32c7979..2927b437173 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ecp-data-vis-sdk/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ecp-data-vis-sdk/package.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def variants2deps(dep_spec, pkg_spec, variants):
 
     depends_on('parallel-netcdf+shared+fortran', when='+pnetcdf')
 
-    variants2deps('unifyfs+fortran', '+unifyfs', ['hdf5'])
+    variants2deps('unifyfs', '+unifyfs ', ['hdf5'])
 
     depends_on('veloc', when='+veloc')