diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-redis/template b/srcpkgs/python-redis/template
index 7f8278ff9f6..d8899062be1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-redis/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-redis/template
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # Template file for 'python-redis'
 pkgname=python-redis
 version=2.10.5
-revision=1
+revision=2
 noarch=yes
 wrksrc="redis-${version}"
 build_style=python-module
-python_versions="2.7 3.4"
 pycompile_module="redis"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3.4-setuptools"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
 depends="python"
 short_desc="Python2 client for Redis key-value store"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
@@ -20,14 +19,20 @@ post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
 
-python3.4-redis_package() {
+python3-redis_package() {
 	noarch=yes
-	depends="python3.4"
-	pycompile_version="3.4"
+	depends="python3"
 	pycompile_module="redis"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3.4}"
+	replaces="python3.4-redis>=0"
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
 	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3.4
+		vmove usr/lib/python3*
 		vlicense LICENSE
 	}
 }
+python3.4-redis_package() {
+	noarch=yes
+	build_style=meta
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3.4} (transitional dummy package)"
+	depends="python3-redis>=${version}_${revision}"
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-redis b/srcpkgs/python3-redis
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..f39eb4c3b3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-redis
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python-redis
\ No newline at end of file