diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth b/srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth
deleted file mode 120000
index 83fc9e89f4e..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-wcwidth
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-wcwidth/template b/srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth/template
similarity index 51%
rename from srcpkgs/python-wcwidth/template
rename to srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth/template
index a21b21883e1..6544018ac6f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-wcwidth/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-wcwidth/template
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-# Template file for 'python-wcwidth'
-pkgname=python-wcwidth
+# Template file for 'python3-wcwidth'
+pkgname=python3-wcwidth
 version=0.2.5
 revision=4
 wrksrc="wcwidth-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="python-backports.functools_lru_cache"
-short_desc="Measures no. of terminal column cells of wide-character codes (Python2)"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3"
+checkdepends="python3-pytest"
+short_desc="Measures no. of terminal column cells of wide-character codes"
 maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth"
@@ -16,12 +17,3 @@ checksum=c4d647b99872929fdb7bdcaa4fbe7f01413ed3d98077df798530e5b04f116c83
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
-
-python3-wcwidth_package() {
-	depends="python3"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense LICENSE
-	}
-}