diff --git wiredtiger/wiredtiger.spec wiredtiger/wiredtiger.spec.tmp
index c1968acacf..429f7ef670 100644
--- wiredtiger/wiredtiger.spec
+++ wiredtiger/wiredtiger.spec.tmp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           wiredtiger
 Version:        2.9.0
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Summary:        A data storage engine
 # http://source.wiredtiger.com/develop/license.html
 License:        (GPLv2 or GPLv3) and MIT and BSD and ASL 2.0
@@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ Requires:       %{name}-libs%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 %description devel
 The wiredtiger-devel package provides the WiredTiger development files.
 
-%package python
+%package -n python2-wiredtiger
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-wiredtiger}
+# Remove before F30
+Provides: %{name}-python%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Obsoletes: %{name}-python < %{version}-%{release}
 Summary:        Python bindings for WiredTiger
 Requires:       %{name}-libs%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 
-%description python
+%description -n python2-wiredtiger
 The wiredtiger-python package provides WiredTiger python API.
 
 %package java
@@ -131,7 +135,7 @@ make check
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/%{name}.pc
 %{_includedir}/*
 
-%files python
+%files -n python2-wiredtiger
 %dir %{python_sitearch}/%{name}
 %{python_sitearch}/%{name}/*.py*
 %attr(0755, -, -) %{python_sitearch}/%{name}/_%{name}.so
@@ -141,6 +145,10 @@ make check
 %{_jnidir}/%{name}.jar
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 12 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 2.9.0-5
+- Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-wiredtiger
+  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.0-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild