diff --git python-backports/python-backports.spec python-backports/python-backports.spec.tmp
index 1c6f0245a0..0598282dcd 100644
--- python-backports/python-backports.spec
+++ python-backports/python-backports.spec.tmp
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           python-backports
 Version:        1.0
-Release:        11%{?dist}
+Release:        12%{?dist}
 Summary:        Namespace for backported Python features
 
 # Only code is sourced from http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0382/
@@ -12,17 +12,25 @@ Source0:        backports.py
 
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 
-%description
-The backports namespace is a namespace reserved for features backported from
-the Python standard library to older versions of Python 2.
+%global _description\
+The backports namespace is a namespace reserved for features backported from\
+the Python standard library to older versions of Python 2.\
+\
+Packages that exist in the backports namespace in Fedora should not provide\
+their own backports/__init__.py, but instead require this package.\
+\
+Backports to earlier versions of Python 3, if they exist, do not need this\
+package because of changes made in Python 3.3 in PEP 420\
+(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/).\
 
-Packages that exist in the backports namespace in Fedora should not provide
-their own backports/__init__.py, but instead require this package.
 
-Backports to earlier versions of Python 3, if they exist, do not need this
-package because of changes made in Python 3.3 in PEP 420
-(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/).
+%description %_description
 
+%package -n python2-backports
+Summary: %summary
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-backports}
+
+%description -n python2-backports %_description
 
 %prep
 
@@ -39,7 +47,7 @@ install -pm 644 %{SOURCE0} %{buildroot}%{python_sitearch}/backports/__init__.py
 %endif
 
  
-%files
+%files -n python2-backports
 %{python_sitelib}/backports
 %if "%{python_sitelib}" != "%{python_sitearch}"
 %{python_sitearch}/backports
@@ -47,6 +55,10 @@ install -pm 644 %{SOURCE0} %{buildroot}%{python_sitearch}/backports/__init__.py
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 12 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 1.0-12
+- Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-backports
+  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild