diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template b/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template
index cdfc61e9481..d46c7f799a4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ pkgname=python-gobject
 version=3.30.4
 revision=2
 wrksrc="pygobject-${version}"
+build_style=meson
+build_helper="gir"
+configure_args="-Dpython=python2.7"
 pycompile_module="gi pygtkcompat"
-hostmakedepends="gobject-introspection meson pkg-config"
-makedepends="libglib-devel python-cairo-devel python3-cairo-devel"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libglib-devel python-cairo-devel python-devel"
 depends="gir-freedesktop python-cairo"
 short_desc="Python2 bindings for GObject"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
@@ -14,49 +17,15 @@ homepage="https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/pygobject/${version%.*}/pygobject-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=2dc1a1a444b82955e65b81c2a2511ecf8032404beba4ef1d48144168f2f64c43
 
-# Also, we don't do any meson cross specific stuff here
-nocross="http://build.voidlinux.eu/builders/armv7l_builder/builds/8676/steps/shell_3/logs/stdio"
-
-pre_configure() {
-	mkdir -p gi-${py2_ver}
-	mv * gi-${py2_ver} || true
-	cp -a gi-${py2_ver} gi-${py3_ver}
-}
-
-do_configure() {
-	for pyver in $py2_ver $py3_ver; do
-		cd ${wrksrc}/gi-${pyver}
-		meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=plain -Dpython=python${pyver} . build
-	done
-}
-
-do_build() {
-	for pyver in $py2_ver $py3_ver; do
-		cd ${wrksrc}/gi-${pyver}
-		ninja -C build ${makejobs}
-	done
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	for pyver in $py2_ver $py3_ver; do
-		cd ${wrksrc}/gi-${pyver}
-		DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} ninja -C build install
-	done
-}
-
-python3-gobject_package() {
-	pycompile_module="gi pygtkcompat"
-	depends="gir-freedesktop python3-cairo"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove ${py3_sitelib}
-	}
-}
+case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+	x86_64-musl) ;;
+	*-musl) broken="Error relocating /usr/aarch64-linux-musl/usr/lib/libz.so.1: unsupported relocation type 1026" ;;
+esac
 
 python-gobject-devel_package() {
-	depends="libgirepository-devel python-cairo-devel python3-cairo-devel
-		 python-gobject>=${version}_${revision}
-		 python3-gobject>=${version}_${revision}"
+	depends="libgirepository-devel python-cairo-devel
+	 libglib-devel libffi-devel
+	 python-gobject>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-gobject b/srcpkgs/python3-gobject
deleted file mode 120000
index 4af4eca5908..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-gobject
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-gobject
\ No newline at end of file