diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-ply/template b/srcpkgs/python-ply/template
index 99d5927d975..06e79151669 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-ply/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-ply/template
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 pkgname=python-ply
 version=3.11
 revision=7
-build_style=python-module
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
+build_style=python2-module
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
 depends="python"
 short_desc="Lex and Yacc for Python2"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
@@ -16,12 +16,3 @@ post_install() {
 	sed -n '/Copyright/,/POSSIBILITY/p' README.md >LICENSE
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
-
-python3-ply_package() {
-	depends="python3"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense LICENSE
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-ply b/srcpkgs/python3-ply
deleted file mode 120000
index 805861f2f7a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-ply
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-ply
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-ply/template b/srcpkgs/python3-ply/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5f633447984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-ply/template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Template file for 'python3-ply'
+pkgname=python3-ply
+version=3.11
+revision=7
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3"
+short_desc="Lex and Yacc for Python3"
+maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/p/ply/ply-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=00c7c1aaa88358b9c765b6d3000c6eec0ba42abca5351b095321aef446081da3
+
+post_install() {
+	sed -n '/Copyright/,/POSSIBILITY/p' README.md >LICENSE
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}