diff --git a/coccinelle.changes b/coccinelle.changes
index 886b42f..5e24f67 100644
--- a/coccinelle.changes
+++ b/coccinelle.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 21 00:36:44 UTC 2021 - Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
+
+- Fix totally broken python support, set the correct python3
+  interpreter, otherwise it defaults to python, which in our case
+  is python 2.7. (changed kill-env.diff, spec) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep 11 12:34:56 UTC 2021 - ohering@suse.de
 
diff --git a/coccinelle.spec b/coccinelle.spec
index c5c3eb6..63e26ea 100644
--- a/coccinelle.spec
+++ b/coccinelle.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ fixing bugs in systems code.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
-%configure
+%configure --with-python=%python_for_executables
 %make_build -j1 VERBOSE=yes
 
 %install
diff --git a/kill-env.diff b/kill-env.diff
index 4f4aac6..18f7d51 100644
--- a/kill-env.diff
+++ b/kill-env.diff
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ Don't choose arbitrary python interpreters from $PATH.
  tools/pycocci |    2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
-Index: coccinelle-1.0.6/tools/pycocci
+Index: coccinelle-1.1.0/tools/pycocci
 ===================================================================
---- coccinelle-1.0.6.orig/tools/pycocci
-+++ coccinelle-1.0.6/tools/pycocci
+--- coccinelle-1.1.0.orig/tools/pycocci
++++ coccinelle-1.1.0/tools/pycocci
 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 -#!/usr/bin/env python
-+#!/usr/bin/python
++#!/usr/bin/python3
  #
  # Copyright (c) 2014 Luis R. Rodriguez  <mcgrof@suse.com>
  # Copyright (c) 2013 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>