diff --git python-gd/python-gd.spec python-gd/python-gd.spec.tmp
index 5296155b06..1f0252dff1 100644
--- python-gd/python-gd.spec
+++ python-gd/python-gd.spec.tmp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 Name:		python-gd
 Version:	0.56
-Release:	16%{?dist}
+Release:	17%{?dist}
 Summary:	Python GD module
 Group:		Development/Libraries
 License:	BSD
@@ -31,18 +31,26 @@ BuildRequires:	libXpm-devel
 BuildRequires:	openjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:	python2-devel
 BuildRequires:	zlib-devel
-Requires:	gd >= 2.0.23
-
-%description
-The GDmodule is an interface to the GD library written by Thomas Boutell.
 
-    'gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
-     complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
-     other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or
-     JPEG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications,
-     where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images
+%global _description\
+The GDmodule is an interface to the GD library written by Thomas Boutell.\
+\
+    'gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images\
+     complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from\
+     other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or\
+     JPEG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications,\
+     where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images\
      by most browsers.'
 
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n python2-gd
+Summary: %summary
+Requires:	gd >= 2.0.23
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-gd}
+
+%description -n python2-gd %_description
+
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{mod_name}-%{version}
 sed -e 's|\r||' %{SOURCE1} > LICENSE
@@ -56,13 +64,17 @@ CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} Setup.py build
 %{__python} Setup.py install --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{python_sitearch}/_gd.so
 
-%files
+%files -n python2-gd
 %doc LICENSE README
 %{python_sitearch}/_gd.so
 %{python_sitearch}/gd.py*
 %{python_sitearch}/%{mod_name}-%{version}-py2.7.egg-info
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 12 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 0.56-17
+- Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-gd
+  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.56-16
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild