diff --git a/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb b/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
index 6a7f6c3f5d..4752e30e13 100644
--- a/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
+++ b/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tvheadend: TV streaming server and recorder"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://tvheadend.org/"

-inherit autotools-brokensep gettext gitpkgv pkgconfig
+inherit autotools-brokensep gettext pkgconfig

 DEPENDS = "avahi cmake-native dvb-apps libdvbcsa libpcre2 openssl uriparser zlib"

@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git;branch=master;protocol=https

 SRCREV = "cc602833684953fc3e6f1c89d4f08f6dfef179e3"
 PV = "4.3+git"
-PKGV = "4.3+git${GITPKGV}"
+# PKGV used to be 4.3+git<commit count>+<hash> from gitpkgv; the PR
+# server AUTOINC that replaces the count starts lower, so bump PE to keep
+# the upgrade path.
+PE = "1"


 EXTRA_OECONF += "--arch=${TARGET_ARCH} \
