diff --git a/git.changes b/git.changes
index 87c7ebd..2829374 100644
--- a/git.changes
+++ b/git.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 22 13:49:57 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- drop python2 requires as git-p4 is documented to work with python3
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep  9 11:16:03 UTC 2022 - Callum Farmer <gmbr3@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 54425fc..5fef41c 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -221,7 +221,6 @@ system.
 Summary:        Git tools for importing Perforce repositories
 Group:          Development/Tools/Version Control
 Requires:       git-core = %{version}
-Requires:       python2-base
 
 %description p4
 Tools for importing Perforce repositories to the GIT version control
@@ -321,6 +320,8 @@ directory /git/ that calls the cgi script.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
+# update shebang to use python3
+sed -e '1{s,.*,#!/usr/bin/python3,}' git-p4.py
 cat > .make <<'EOF'
 #!/bin/bash
 %make_build CFLAGS="%{optflags}" \