diff --git a/lib/puppet/modulebuilder/builder.rb b/lib/puppet/modulebuilder/builder.rb
index f893830..eb19d85 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/modulebuilder/builder.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/modulebuilder/builder.rb
@@ -339,8 +339,7 @@ def release_name
     # header format.
     #
     # POSIX.1-2001 (which allows paths of infinite length) was adopted by GNU
-    # tar in 2004 and is supported by minitar 0.7 and above. Unfortunately
-    # much of the Puppet ecosystem still uses minitar 0.6.1.
+    # tar in 2004 and is supported by minitar 0.7 and above.
     #
     # POSIX.1-1998 tar format does not allow for paths greater than 256 bytes,
     # or paths that can't be split into a prefix of 155 bytes (max) and
diff --git a/puppet-modulebuilder.gemspec b/puppet-modulebuilder.gemspec
index a8c933d..9cf5269 100644
--- a/puppet-modulebuilder.gemspec
+++ b/puppet-modulebuilder.gemspec
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.executables   = spec.files.grep(%r{^exe/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
   spec.require_paths = ['lib']
   # minitar and pathspec is required for building Puppet modules
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency 'minitar', '~> 0.9'
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency 'minitar', '>= 0.9', '< 2'
   spec.add_runtime_dependency 'pathspec', '>= 0.2.1', '< 3.0.0'
 
   spec.add_development_dependency 'voxpupuli-rubocop', '~> 2.8.0'