diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index f0aae6fbd5ed0d64bb4beaf287a8a4c413d60b4e..ee8f88d4c468ac1e6d670942167ded95a5143dcd 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ svgutils>=0.3.1
 pyarrow>=0.13.0
 pandas>=0.25.1
 importlib-metadata>=0.17
-importlib-resources>=1.0.1
+importlib-resources>=1.0.1,<2
 six>=1.12.0
 timeout-decorator>=0.4.1
 attrs