diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/patches/disable-building-wheel-by-default.patch b/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/patches/disable-building-wheel-by-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3e9c800cdde
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+++ b/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/patches/disable-building-wheel-by-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+diff --git setup.cfg setup.cfg
+index 4fe3b74..139986d 100644
+--- setup.cfg
++++ setup.cfg
+@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+ [aliases]
+-build=sdist bdist_wheel
+ 
+ [wheel]
+ universal = 1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/template b/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/python-markdown2/template
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+# Template file for 'python-markdown2'
+pkgname=python-markdown2
+version=2.3.7
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+build_style=python-module
+pycompile_module="markdown2"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
+short_desc="Fast and complete implementation of Markdown in Python2"
+maintainer="Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves <aluisio@aasg.name>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2"
+distfiles="https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=@4576ebde09526f20c873a73775192851b7e9ed5f521fac34303ed0a8b8eda1ed
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE.txt
+}
+
+python3-markdown2_package() {
+	noarch=yes
+	pycompile_module="markdown2"
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/python3*"
+		vlicense LICENSE.txt
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-markdown2 b/srcpkgs/python3-markdown2
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+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-markdown2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python-markdown2
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