diff --git a/contrib/src/jsoncpp/rules.mak b/contrib/src/jsoncpp/rules.mak
index 35186d707a2d2a2f439b5f006370b674f835f834..b23b0e677478548d56cddd5613510e7ccb72027f 100644
--- a/contrib/src/jsoncpp/rules.mak
+++ b/contrib/src/jsoncpp/rules.mak
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ JSONCPP_URL := https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/archive/$(JSONCPP_
 
 PKGS += jsoncpp
 
-ifeq ($(call need_pkg,'jsoncpp'),)
+ifeq ($(call need_pkg,"jsoncpp >= 1.6.5"),)
 PKGS_FOUND += jsoncpp
 endif