diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/01_unbundle.patch b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/01_unbundle.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d6cd3c534a2..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/01_unbundle.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-diff --git MANIFEST.in MANIFEST.in
-index 439de49..7888aee 100644
---- MANIFEST.in
-+++ MANIFEST.in
-@@ -1 +1 @@
--include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt requests/cacert.pem
-+include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt
-diff --git requests/__init__.py requests/__init__.py
-index ac2b06c..6d17c3d 100644
---- requests/__init__.py
-+++ requests/__init__.py
-@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2014 Kenneth Reitz'
- 
- # Attempt to enable urllib3's SNI support, if possible
- try:
--    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
-+    from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
-     pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
- except ImportError:
-     pass
-diff --git requests/adapters.py requests/adapters.py
-index c892853..8f5d340 100644
---- requests/adapters.py
-+++ requests/adapters.py
-@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ and maintain connections.
- import socket
- 
- from .models import Response
--from .packages.urllib3 import Retry
--from .packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
--from .packages.urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
--from .packages.urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
-+from urllib3 import Retry
-+from urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
-+from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
-+from urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
- from .compat import urlparse, basestring
- from .utils import (DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH, get_encoding_from_headers,
-                     prepend_scheme_if_needed, get_auth_from_url, urldefragauth)
- from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
- from .cookies import extract_cookies_to_jar
- from .exceptions import (ConnectionError, ConnectTimeout, ReadTimeout, SSLError,
-                          ProxyError, RetryError)
-diff --git requests/certs.py requests/certs.py
-index 07e6475..2f2d79b 100644
---- requests/certs.py
-+++ requests/certs.py
-@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ try:
- except ImportError:
-     def where():
-         """Return the preferred certificate bundle."""
--        # vendored bundle inside Requests
--        return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cacert.pem')
-+        return '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
- 
- if __name__ == '__main__':
-     print(where())
-diff --git requests/compat.py requests/compat.py
-index c07726e..d3ea9aa 100644
---- requests/compat.py
-+++ requests/compat.py
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
- pythoncompat
- """
- 
--from .packages import chardet
-+import chardet
- 
- import sys
- 
-@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ if is_py2:
-     import cookielib
-     from Cookie import Morsel
-     from StringIO import StringIO
--    from .packages.urllib3.packages.ordered_dict import OrderedDict
-+    from collections import OrderedDict
- 
-     builtin_str = str
-     bytes = str
-diff --git requests/exceptions.py requests/exceptions.py
-index 89135a8..b70c525 100644
---- requests/exceptions.py
-+++ requests/exceptions.py
-@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests.exceptions
- This module contains the set of Requests' exceptions.
- 
- """
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
-+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
- 
- 
- class RequestException(IOError):
-diff --git requests/models.py requests/models.py
-index b728c84..ca867df 100644
---- requests/models.py
-+++ requests/models.py
-@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
- 
- from .auth import HTTPBasicAuth
- from .cookies import cookiejar_from_dict, get_cookie_header
--from .packages.urllib3.fields import RequestField
--from .packages.urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
--from .packages.urllib3.util import parse_url
--from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import (
-+from urllib3.fields import RequestField
-+from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
-+from urllib3.util import parse_url
-+from urllib3.exceptions import (
-     DecodeError, ReadTimeoutError, ProtocolError, LocationParseError)
- from .exceptions import (
-     HTTPError, MissingSchema, InvalidURL, ChunkedEncodingError,
-diff --git requests/sessions.py requests/sessions.py
-index 4f30696..03a3c36 100644
---- requests/sessions.py
-+++ requests/sessions.py
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from .hooks import default_hooks, dispatch_hook
- from .utils import to_key_val_list, default_headers, to_native_string
- from .exceptions import (
-     TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema, ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError)
--from .packages.urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
-+from urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
- from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
- 
- from .adapters import HTTPAdapter
-diff --git setup.py setup.py
-index 813fc87..6eac79f 100755
---- setup.py
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ if sys.argv[-1] == 'publish':
- 
- packages = [
-     'requests',
--    'requests.packages',
--    'requests.packages.chardet',
--    'requests.packages.urllib3',
--    'requests.packages.urllib3.packages',
--    'requests.packages.urllib3.contrib',
--    'requests.packages.urllib3.util',
--    'requests.packages.urllib3.packages.ssl_match_hostname',
- ]
- 
- requires = []
-@@ -43,7 +36,7 @@ setup(
-     author_email='me@kennethreitz.com',
-     url='http://python-requests.org',
-     packages=packages,
--    package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'NOTICE'], 'requests': ['*.pem']},
-+    package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'NOTICE'],},
-     package_dir={'requests': 'requests'},
-     include_package_data=True,
-     install_requires=requires,
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/02_export-incompleteread.patch b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/02_export-incompleteread.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f0e45be511..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/02_export-incompleteread.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nur requests/compat.py requests/compat.py
---- requests/compat.py	2014-10-29 12:03:06.340767658 +0100
-+++ requests/compat.py	2014-10-29 12:30:56.150892159 +0100
-@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
-     from Cookie import Morsel
-     from StringIO import StringIO
-     from collections import OrderedDict
-+    from httplib import IncompleteRead
- 
-     builtin_str = str
-     bytes = str
-@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@
-     from http.cookies import Morsel
-     from io import StringIO
-     from collections import OrderedDict
-+    from http.client import IncompleteRead
- 
-     builtin_str = str
-     str = str
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5b5f50d0323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git requests/certs.py requests/certs.py
+index 07e6475..2f2d79b 100644
+--- requests/certs.py
++++ requests/certs.py
+@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ try:
+ except ImportError:
+     def where():
+         """Return the preferred certificate bundle."""
+-        # vendored bundle inside Requests
+-        return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cacert.pem')
++        return '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
+ 
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
+     print(where())
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template b/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
index 7cf5ccc19ec..06abc6ef68d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'python-requests'
 pkgname=python-requests
-version=2.5.1
+version=2.5.3
 revision=1
 noarch=yes
 wrksrc="requests-${version}"
@@ -17,10 +17,20 @@ maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/"
 license="Apache-2.0"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/r/requests/requests-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=7b7735efd3b1e2323dc9fcef060b380d05f5f18bd0f247f5e9e74a628279de66
+checksum=55d7f5619daae94ec49ee81ed8c865e5a2a47f0bbf8e06cf94636bee103eaf65
 
 pre_build() {
-	rm -rf requests.egg-info
+	# remove bundled cacerts
+	rm -f requests/cacert.pem
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	# replace bundled copy of chardet and urllib3
+	for pyver in $python_versions; do
+		rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python${pyver}/site-packages/requests/packages/{chardet,urllib3}
+		ln -sf ../../chardet ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python${pyver}/site-packages/requests/packages/chardet
+		ln -sf ../../urllib3 ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python${pyver}/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3
+	done
 }
 
 python3.4-requests_package() {