diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template b/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template
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--- a/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template
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@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'python-tweepy'
-pkgname=python-tweepy
-version=3.8.0
-revision=2
-archs=noarch
-wrksrc="tweepy-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-pycompile_module="tweepy"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="python-requests-oauthlib python-six python-pysocks"
-short_desc="Twitter library for Python2"
-maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
-license="MIT"
-homepage="https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy"
-distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/tweepy/tweepy-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=8abd828ba51a85a2b5bb7373715d6d3bb32d18ac624e3a4db02e4ef8ab48316b
-python_version=2
-
-post_install() {
-	# We cannot fetch this as distfile without create_wrksrc=yes which
-	# OTOH makes it difficult to build. Just fetch the LICENSE text now.
-	$XBPS_FETCH_CMD -o LICENSE.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tweepy/tweepy/master/LICENSE
-	digest=$($XBPS_DIGEST_CMD <LICENSE.txt)
-	if [ "$digest" != "ae8fd13a3925130beb68500cccb62b559e1fbefd8b14e73d6eb208e2e4277841" ]; then
-		msg_error "LICENSE digest changed: $digest\n"
-	fi
-	vlicense LICENSE.txt
-	# remove examples from site-packages root
-	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/examples
-}
-
-python3-tweepy_package() {
-	archs=noarch
-	pycompile_module="tweepy"
-	depends="python3-requests-oauthlib python3-six python3-pysocks"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	python_version=3
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense LICENSE.txt
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-tweepy b/srcpkgs/python3-tweepy
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-python-tweepy
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-tweepy/template b/srcpkgs/python3-tweepy/template
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+# Template file for 'python3-tweepy'
+pkgname=python3-tweepy
+version=3.8.0
+revision=3
+wrksrc="tweepy-${version}"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3-requests-oauthlib python3-six python3-pysocks"
+short_desc="Twitter library for Python3"
+maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/tweepy/tweepy-${version}.tar.gz
+ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tweepy/tweepy/v$version/LICENSE"
+checksum="8abd828ba51a85a2b5bb7373715d6d3bb32d18ac624e3a4db02e4ef8ab48316b
+ bf9bc5b9dcb8421bb3c342bb7fd29194688e1262b50766bd71b21a07461e74b7"
+skip_extraction="LICENSE"
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense $XBPS_SRCDISTDIR/$pkgname-$version/LICENSE
+	# remove examples from site-packages root
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/examples
+}