diff --git a/srcpkgs/tzupdate/template b/srcpkgs/tzupdate/template
index a1cae0c65d6..c0edd6c4dd5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tzupdate/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tzupdate/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=tzupdate
 version=0.5.0
 revision=1
 noarch=yes
-build_style=python-module
+build_style=python2-module
 hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
 depends="python-setuptools python-requests"
 pycompile_module="tzupdate.py"