diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 12eb57177..6a6b22925 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2019-12-30
+	* make fail2ban survive the last python upgrade
 2019-12-29
 	* bump homematicip-0.10.14
 	* bump libpurecool-0.6.0
diff --git a/net-analyzer/fail2ban/Manifest b/net-analyzer/fail2ban/Manifest
index 792c851f4..7a7f0e3e3 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/fail2ban/Manifest
+++ b/net-analyzer/fail2ban/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 DIST fail2ban-0.10.4.tar.gz 493104 BLAKE2B 3a58ab114cf25172c77b229ce53bf6dd009d4fb8c700142480ba0212072d8820126bfabf5dd417835bdac5f5b65d599c6dde859d8c57267e90cfb569dc4a2073 SHA512 ee53f2e8dc3cda4f588c60da5227d3d71550496ddfdf5bdbffced25bafd442b8e2352a9ad9f27bf76489903b5b779cdb9614963342de907c1036ae9268b8f35f
-EBUILD fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild 3320 BLAKE2B 396918602718f08ef383188790c76362d4491e4eb0a3c5f03df340f137cbdc5a90d123da5a2b97cb91db9c68f3447988968f170efc4be2b0f9448d74d0d41c0b SHA512 0d730964f244740f9e2b9a6ae8e5c2e7c103e9af784c145a214fbee6485a053a2f6fa56c7511b7fc51d3b4a67f1f7fba09593660088f902a9beadae17475a6d3
+EBUILD fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild 3257 BLAKE2B 2a3eb2f14c1a3a218d284baf2d3e29d3b6361256042975b9117a2d28baf2a82b3861587ea2e0976e635e6de3a538f1f84fa49e070f1a9259cde507e7f4023319 SHA512 c8e8b72b53c205cfa6169ca19be64e6ad5250a2d2381592ec3253552e93e04efdd549aec05d288799e574324c7167d6f92c69cbae5c4111aaebb4e71966b0c5c
 MISC metadata.xml 372 BLAKE2B 7fca866187d9a128e6fb6787a4099d7a6442e0e51e558786773b91c3e2f06e67167d76f9bc96be0fe1baa1c44fc3f0e9e2105a327a10cb2720b3e3f9e4303a66 SHA512 4d5710e2fb4a7c353ca6bd3203bceef57d4d004367993dc1044800ee8713a3f4697fe8ba3472a73ecd015503656dfb7cd68d674c99188ce5702769cfeaf06b25
diff --git a/net-analyzer/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild b/net-analyzer/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild
index 52777d827..ede355060 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/fail2ban/fail2ban-0.10.4-r3.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_5,3_6,3_7} pypy )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_6,3_7} )
 DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
 
 inherit distutils-r1 systemd
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 		sys-apps/systemd[python(-),${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)' 'python*' ) )
 "
-REQUIRED_USE="systemd? ( !python_single_target_pypy )"
+
 RESTRICT="test"
 DOCS=( ChangeLog DEVELOP README.md THANKS TODO doc/run-rootless.txt )