diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template b/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ad6fd32dd5..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'python-requests'
-pkgname=python-requests
-version=2.26.0
-revision=2
-wrksrc="requests-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="ca-certificates python-chardet python-urllib3 python-idna"
-short_desc="Python2 HTTP library for human beings"
-maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
-license="Apache-2.0"
-homepage="https://python-requests.org/"
-changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/master/HISTORY.md"
-distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/r/requests/requests-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=b8aa58f8cf793ffd8782d3d8cb19e66ef36f7aba4353eec859e74678b01b07a7
-make_check=no # tests are broken for python2 requests
-
-post_patch() {
-	vsed -i '/certifi/d' setup.py
-}
-
-python3-requests_package() {
-	depends="ca-certificates python3-charset-normalizer python3-urllib3 python3-idna"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-requests b/srcpkgs/python3-requests
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index 9af2ed02a93..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-requests
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-requests
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
rename to srcpkgs/python3-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-requests/template b/srcpkgs/python3-requests/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e710e6f7b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-requests/template
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Template file for 'python3-requests'
+pkgname=python3-requests
+version=2.27.1
+revision=1
+wrksrc="requests-${version}"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="ca-certificates python3-charset-normalizer python3-urllib3 python3-idna"
+checkdepends="python3-pytest $depends python3-trustme python3-pytest-httpbin
+ python3-pytest-mock python3-pysocks"
+short_desc="Python3 HTTP library for human beings"
+maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
+license="Apache-2.0"
+homepage="https://python-requests.org/"
+changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/master/HISTORY.md"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/r/requests/requests-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=68d7c56fd5a8999887728ef304a6d12edc7be74f1cfa47714fc8b414525c9a61
+
+post_patch() {
+	vsed -i '/certifi/d' setup.py
+}