diff --git python-debian/python-debian.spec python-debian/python-debian.spec.tmp
index bf71337a35..e9cf388c56 100644
--- python-debian/python-debian.spec
+++ python-debian/python-debian.spec.tmp
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 Name:           python-debian
 Version:        0.1.27
-Release:        7%{?dist}
+Release:        8%{?dist}
 Summary:        Modules for Debian-related data formats
 # debfile.py, arfile.py, debtags.py are release under GPL v3 or above
 # everything else is GPLv2+
@@ -22,28 +22,36 @@ Patch1:			0001-add-support-for-lzma.patch
 URL:            http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-python-debian/python-debian.git
 BuildRoot:      %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
 BuildArch:      noarch
-Requires:       python >= 2.4
-Requires:		python-chardet
-Requires:       xz
-Requires:       python-six
 #not available now
 #Recommends:    python-apt
-Suggests:       gnupg
 BuildRequires:  python-devel, python-setuptools, python-chardet
 BuildRequires:  python-six
 
-%description
-This package provides Python modules that abstract many formats of Debian 
-related files. Currently handled are:
-* Debtags information (debian.debtags module)
-* debian/changelog (debian.changelog module)
-* Packages files, pdiffs (debian.debian_support module)
-* Control files of single or multiple RFC822-style paragraphs, e.g.
-  debian/control, .changes, .dsc, Packages, Sources, Release, etc.
-  (debian.deb822 module)
-* Raw .deb and .ar files, with (read-only) access to contained
+%global _description\
+This package provides Python modules that abstract many formats of Debian\
+related files. Currently handled are:\
+* Debtags information (debian.debtags module)\
+* debian/changelog (debian.changelog module)\
+* Packages files, pdiffs (debian.debian_support module)\
+* Control files of single or multiple RFC822-style paragraphs, e.g.\
+  debian/control, .changes, .dsc, Packages, Sources, Release, etc.\
+  (debian.deb822 module)\
+* Raw .deb and .ar files, with (read-only) access to contained\
   files and meta-information
 
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n python2-debian
+Summary: %summary
+Requires:       python >= 2.4
+Requires:		python-chardet
+Requires:       xz
+Requires:       python-six
+Suggests:       gnupg
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-debian}
+
+%description -n python2-debian %_description
+
 %if 0%{?with_python3}
 %package -n python3-debian
 Summary:        Modules for Debian-related data formats
@@ -119,7 +127,7 @@ cd tests;
 popd
 %endif
 
-%files
+%files -n python2-debian
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %dir %{python_sitelib}/debian
 %dir %{python_sitelib}/debian_bundle
@@ -145,6 +153,10 @@ popd
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 12 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 0.1.27-8
+- Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-debian
+  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3
+
 * Thu Jul 27 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.27-7
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild