diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-dbus/template b/srcpkgs/python-dbus/template
index ee6b9ddb79f..b190d8499bf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-dbus/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-dbus/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'python-dbus'
 pkgname=python-dbus
 version=1.2.16
-revision=2
+revision=3
 wrksrc="dbus-python-${version}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config python-devel python3-devel"
@@ -59,9 +59,16 @@ python3-dbus_package() {
 		vmove usr/lib/python3*
 	}
 }
+# This package used to provide both Python 2 and Python 3 development files
+# Those files are now in python3-dbus-devel
 python-dbus-devel_package() {
-	depends="python-devel python3-devel
-	 python-dbus>=${version}_${revision} python3-dbus>=${version}_${revision}"
+	depends="python-devel python-dbus>=${version}_${revision}
+	 python3-dbus-devel>=${version}_${revision}"
+	build_style=meta
+	short_desc+=" - development files (Python 2 meta)"
+}
+python3-dbus-devel_package() {
+	depends="python3-devel python3-dbus>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-dbus-devel b/srcpkgs/python3-dbus-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..082b5c2fc19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-dbus-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python-dbus
\ No newline at end of file