diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
index faff0343d1c..04d226b5053 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # Template file for 'python-tornado'
 pkgname=python-tornado
 version=4.4.2
-revision=1
+revision=2
 wrksrc="tornado-${version}"
 build_style=python-module
-python_versions="2.7 3.4"
 pycompile_module="tornado"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3.4-setuptools"
-makedepends="python-devel python3.4-devel"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
+makedepends="python-devel python3-devel"
 depends="ca-certificates python-singledispatch python-backports_abc"
 short_desc="Python2 web framework and asynchronous networking library"
 maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
@@ -16,12 +15,17 @@ license="Apache-2.0"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/tornado/tornado-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=2898f992f898cd41eeb8d53b6df75495f2f423b6672890aadaf196ea1448edcc
 
-python3.4-tornado_package() {
-	pycompile_version="3.4"
+python3-tornado_package() {
 	pycompile_module="tornado"
-	depends="ca-certificates python3.4-backports_abc"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3.4}"
+	replaces="python3.4-tornado>=0"
+	depends="ca-certificates python3-backports_abc"
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
 	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3.4
+		vmove usr/lib/python3*
 	}
 }
+python3.4-tornado_package() {
+	build_style=meta
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3.4} (transitional dummy package)"
+	depends="python3-tornado>=${version}_${revision}"
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-tornado b/srcpkgs/python3-tornado
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..3b643ca3cb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-tornado
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python-tornado
\ No newline at end of file