diff --git a/pkg/contexts/ocm/repositories/genericocireg/repo_test.go b/pkg/contexts/ocm/repositories/genericocireg/repo_test.go
index 51a7b35305..50ab789483 100644
--- a/pkg/contexts/ocm/repositories/genericocireg/repo_test.go
+++ b/pkg/contexts/ocm/repositories/genericocireg/repo_test.go
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and Open Component Model contributors.
-//
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
 package genericocireg_test
 
 import (
@@ -9,12 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"reflect"
 
-	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
-	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
-	. "github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/testutils"
-
 	"github.com/mandelsoft/vfs/pkg/osfs"
 	"github.com/mandelsoft/vfs/pkg/vfs"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/go-digest"
 
 	"github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/blobaccess"
@@ -50,6 +44,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/finalizer"
 	"github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/mime"
 	"github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/signing/hasher/sha256"
+	. "github.com/open-component-model/ocm/pkg/testutils"
 )
 
 var DefaultContext = ocm.New()
@@ -79,6 +74,15 @@ var _ = Describe("component repository mapping", func() {
 		vfs.Cleanup(tempfs)
 	})
 
+	It("Don't Panik! When it's not a semver.org conform version. #756", func() {
+		repo := Must(DefaultContext.RepositoryForSpec(spec))
+		comp := Must(repo.LookupComponent(COMPONENT))
+		cva, err := comp.NewVersion("v1.two.zeo-2")
+		Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(cva).To(BeNil())
+		Expect(err.Error()).To(Equal("Invalid Semantic Version"))
+	})
+
 	It("creates a dummy component", func() {
 		var finalize finalizer.Finalizer
 		defer Defer(finalize.Finalize)