diff --git a/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-249.2.ebuild b/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-249.2.ebuild
index 9e5fa453bcfd0..da6cc62575f24 100644
--- a/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-249.2.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-249.2.ebuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
 
 if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git"
@@ -19,8 +20,6 @@ else
 	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
 fi
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
-
 inherit bash-completion-r1 linux-info meson-multilib pam python-any-r1 systemd toolchain-funcs udev usr-ldscript
 
 DESCRIPTION="System and service manager for Linux"
diff --git a/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild b/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
index 71b8f9c1b29c9..260f9ce67e0fb 100644
--- a/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
 
 if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git"
@@ -19,8 +20,6 @@ else
 	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
 fi
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
-
 inherit bash-completion-r1 linux-info meson-multilib pam python-any-r1 systemd toolchain-funcs udev usr-ldscript
 
 DESCRIPTION="System and service manager for Linux"