diff -ur a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py	2024-06-25 03:33:22.925676272 +0000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py	2024-06-25 03:34:30.900338499 +0000
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@
 </foo>
 """
 
-fails_with_expat_2_6_0 = (unittest.expectedFailure
-                        if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 6, 0) else
+fails_with_expat_2_5_0 = (unittest.expectedFailure
+                        if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 5, 0) else
                         lambda test: test)
 
 def checkwarnings(*filters, quiet=False):
@@ -1424,11 +1424,11 @@
         self.assert_event_tags(parser, [('end', 'root')])
         self.assertIsNone(parser.close())
 
-    @fails_with_expat_2_6_0
+    @fails_with_expat_2_5_0
     def test_simple_xml_chunk_1(self):
         self.test_simple_xml(chunk_size=1)
 
-    @fails_with_expat_2_6_0
+    @fails_with_expat_2_5_0
     def test_simple_xml_chunk_5(self):
         self.test_simple_xml(chunk_size=5)
 
