diff --git a/srcpkgs/beets/patches/python-3.8.patch b/srcpkgs/beets/patches/python-3.8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..423f25985b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/beets/patches/python-3.8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+From dab0c1f9abda5b17cc7488f89a6fe08be7bc56a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: wisp3rwind <17089248+wisp3rwind@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:34:31 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] compatibility with breaking changes to the ast module
+
+new in 3.10, also backported to 3.8 and 3.9: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20649
+In fact, our generation of some Literals has been invalid since Python
+3.4, fix that too.
+---
+ https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/3621
+ beets/util/functemplate.py | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
+ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git beets/util/functemplate.py beets/util/functemplate.py
+index af22b79082..266534a9b4 100644
+--- beets/util/functemplate.py
++++ beets/util/functemplate.py
+@@ -73,15 +73,26 @@ def ex_literal(val):
+     """An int, float, long, bool, string, or None literal with the given
+     value.
+     """
+-    if val is None:
+-        return ast.Name('None', ast.Load())
+-    elif isinstance(val, six.integer_types):
+-        return ast.Num(val)
+-    elif isinstance(val, bool):
+-        return ast.Name(bytes(val), ast.Load())
+-    elif isinstance(val, six.string_types):
+-        return ast.Str(val)
+-    raise TypeError(u'no literal for {0}'.format(type(val)))
++    if sys.version_info[:2] < (3, 4):
++        if val is None:
++            return ast.Name('None', ast.Load())
++        elif isinstance(val, six.integer_types):
++            return ast.Num(val)
++        elif isinstance(val, bool):
++            return ast.Name(bytes(val), ast.Load())
++        elif isinstance(val, six.string_types):
++            return ast.Str(val)
++        raise TypeError(u'no literal for {0}'.format(type(val)))
++    elif sys.version_info[:2] < (3, 6):
++        if val in [None, True, False]:
++            return ast.NameConstant(val)
++        elif isinstance(val, six.integer_types):
++            return ast.Num(val)
++        elif isinstance(val, six.string_types):
++            return ast.Str(val)
++        raise TypeError(u'no literal for {0}'.format(type(val)))
++    else:
++        return ast.Constant(val)
+ 
+ 
+ def ex_varassign(name, expr):
diff --git a/srcpkgs/beets/template b/srcpkgs/beets/template
index 975e6ec9f86..bf0240f1f54 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/beets/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/beets/template
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'beets'
 pkgname=beets
 version=1.4.9
-revision=2
+revision=3
 archs=noarch
 build_style=python3-module
-pycompile_module="beets beetsplug"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 depends="python3-setuptools python3-munkres python3-musicbrainzngs
  python3-Unidecode python3-yaml python3-jellyfish python3-six python3-mutagen"
+# test_web is failing
+checkdepends="$depends python3-discogs_client python3-mpd2 python3-xdg
+ python3-rarfile python3-pylast python3-gobject python3-mock python3-Flask
+ python3-BeautifulSoup4 python3-itsdangerous python3-click python3-Werkzeug
+ python3-Jinja2 python3-soupsieve python3-MarkupSafe"
 short_desc="Media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT"