diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-simplejson b/srcpkgs/python3-simplejson
deleted file mode 120000
index 50018d41468..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-simplejson
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-simplejson
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-simplejson/template b/srcpkgs/python3-simplejson/template
similarity index 58%
rename from srcpkgs/python-simplejson/template
rename to srcpkgs/python3-simplejson/template
index d9975ff9581..93ebf93980f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-simplejson/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-simplejson/template
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-# Template file for 'python-simplejson'
-pkgname=python-simplejson
+# Template file for 'python3-simplejson'
+pkgname=python3-simplejson
 version=3.17.0
-revision=2
+revision=3
 wrksrc="simplejson-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-pycompile_module="simplejson"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-makedepends="python-devel python3-devel"
-short_desc="Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python2"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+makedepends="python3-devel"
+short_desc="Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python3"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT, AFL-2.1"
 homepage="https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson"
@@ -22,12 +21,3 @@ do_check() {
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE.txt LICENSE
 }
-
-python3-simplejson_package() {
-	pycompile_module="simplejson"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense LICENSE.txt LICENSE
-	}
-}