diff --git a/racket/collects/setup/private/pkg-deps.rkt b/racket/collects/setup/private/pkg-deps.rkt
index 3c3ec8c403..acc7aec926 100644
--- a/racket/collects/setup/private/pkg-deps.rkt
+++ b/racket/collects/setup/private/pkg-deps.rkt
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@
                                [d (in-list deps)])
       (define dep-pkg (car d))
       (define dep-vers (cdr d))
-      (define decl-vers (hash-ref pkg-versions dep-pkg "1.0"))
+      (define decl-vers (hash-ref pkg-versions dep-pkg "0.0"))
       (cond
        [(version<? decl-vers dep-vers)
         (setup-fprintf* (current-error-port) #f