diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-traitlets/template b/srcpkgs/python-traitlets/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 797dd0268da..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-traitlets/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'python-traitlets'
-pkgname=python-traitlets
-version=4.3.3
-revision=2
-archs=noarch
-wrksrc="traitlets-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-pycompile_module="traitlets"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="python-decorator python-ipython_genutils python-six python-enum34"
-short_desc="Configuration system for Python2 applications"
-maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
-license="BSD-3-Clause"
-homepage="https://github.com/ipython/traitlets"
-distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/traitlets/traitlets-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=d023ee369ddd2763310e4c3eae1ff649689440d4ae59d7485eb4cfbbe3e359f7
-
-post_install() {
-	vlicense COPYING.md LICENSE
-}
-
-python3-traitlets_package() {
-	archs=noarch
-	depends="python3-decorator python3-ipython_genutils python3-six"
-	pycompile_module="traitlets"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense COPYING.md LICENSE
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets
deleted file mode 120000
index 8c3427bfe9c..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-traitlets
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/patches/python3.8-warning.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/patches/python3.8-warning.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..02fdd037842
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/patches/python3.8-warning.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git traitlets/config/loader.py traitlets/config/loader.py
+index 803b362..ae7e6c9 100644
+--- traitlets/config/loader.py
++++ traitlets/config/loader.py
+@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ class KVArgParseConfigLoader(ArgParseConfigLoader):
+                 nargs = '?'
+             else:
+                 nargs = None
+-            if len(key) is 1:
++            if len(key) == 1:
+                 paa('-'+key, '--'+key, type=text_type, dest=value, nargs=nargs)
+             else:
+                 paa('--'+key, type=text_type, dest=value, nargs=nargs)
+@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ class KVArgParseConfigLoader(ArgParseConfigLoader):
+                 #
+                 self.alias_flags[self.aliases[key]] = value
+                 continue
+-            if len(key) is 1:
++            if len(key) == 1:
+                 paa('-'+key, '--'+key, action='append_const', dest='_flags', const=value)
+             else:
+                 paa('--'+key, action='append_const', dest='_flags', const=value)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/template b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92a11a42629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'python3-traitlets'
+pkgname=python3-traitlets
+version=4.3.3
+revision=3
+archs=noarch
+wrksrc="traitlets-${version}"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3-decorator python3-ipython_genutils python3-six"
+checkdepends="$depends python3-pytest"
+short_desc="Configuration system for Python applications"
+maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="https://github.com/ipython/traitlets"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/traitlets/traitlets-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=d023ee369ddd2763310e4c3eae1ff649689440d4ae59d7485eb4cfbbe3e359f7
+
+do_check() {
+	pytest
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING.md LICENSE
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-traitlets/update b/srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/update
similarity index 100%
rename from srcpkgs/python-traitlets/update
rename to srcpkgs/python3-traitlets/update