diff --git a/gnu/packages/docker.scm b/gnu/packages/docker.scm
index 3f52f4f8db..07731886ae 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/docker.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/docker.scm
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ (define-public docker-compose
            python-docopt
            python-dotenv
            python-jsonschema
-           python-pyyaml
+           python-pyyaml-5
            python-requests
            python-six
            python-texttable