diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d75b7ac56b..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'libxml2-python'
-pkgname=libxml2-python
-version=2.9.10
-revision=4
-wrksrc="${pkgname%-python}-${version}"
-build_wrksrc=python
-build_style=python-module
-hostmakedepends="python-devel python3-devel"
-makedepends="libxml2-devel python-devel python3-devel"
-depends="python python3"
-short_desc="Library providing XML and HTML support - Python2 bindings"
-maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
-license="MIT"
-homepage="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
-distfiles="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=aafee193ffb8fe0c82d4afef6ef91972cbaf5feea100edc2f262750611b4be1f
-
-post_patch() {
-	if [ "${CROSS_BUILD}" ]; then
-		vsed -i setup.py -e "s:/usr/include:${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include:"
-	fi
-}
-
-post_install() {
-	vlicense ../COPYING
-}
-
-libxml2-python3_package() {
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove "usr/lib/python3*"
-		vlicense ../COPYING
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3 b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3
deleted file mode 120000
index 7ba590df866..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-libxml2-python
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python/patches/py39compat.patch b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/patches/py39compat.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from srcpkgs/libxml2-python/patches/py39compat.patch
rename to srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/patches/py39compat.patch
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python/patches/python3-utf8.patch b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/patches/python3-utf8.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from srcpkgs/libxml2-python/patches/python3-utf8.patch
rename to srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/patches/python3-utf8.patch
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..46dfd05a0bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2-python3/template
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Template file for 'libxml2-python3'
+pkgname=libxml2-python3
+version=2.9.10
+revision=5
+wrksrc="libxml2-${version}"
+build_wrksrc=python
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-devel"
+makedepends="libxml2-devel python3-devel"
+depends="python3"
+short_desc="Library providing XML and HTML support - Python3 bindings"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
+distfiles="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=aafee193ffb8fe0c82d4afef6ef91972cbaf5feea100edc2f262750611b4be1f
+
+post_patch() {
+	if [ "${CROSS_BUILD}" ]; then
+		vsed -i setup.py -e "s:/usr/include:${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include:"
+	fi
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense ../COPYING
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
index 6a68fb6691c..22d533816ab 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libxml2'
 #
-# Please keep this in sync with "srcpkgs/libxml2-python"
+# Please keep this in sync with "srcpkgs/libxml2-python3"
 #
 pkgname=libxml2
 version=2.9.10