diff --git a/dev-python/cliapp/cliapp-1.20170823.ebuild b/dev-python/cliapp/cliapp-1.20170823.ebuild
index 6ca847d60c1a3..bea4d92c06f8d 100644
--- a/dev-python/cliapp/cliapp-1.20170823.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cliapp/cliapp-1.20170823.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI="http://git.liw.fi/cgi-bin/cgit/cgit.cgi/cliapp/snapshot/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-
-# test deps not supporting python 3
-RESTRICT="test"
+IUSE=""
 
 MY_DEPEND="
 	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -25,8 +22,6 @@ MY_DEPEND="
 
 DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	${MY_DEPEND}"
-#	test? ( >=dev-python/CoverageTestRunner-1.11 dev-python/pep8 )
-#	"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	${MY_DEPEND}
@@ -38,5 +33,5 @@ src_test() {
 }
 
 python_test() {
-	${PYTHON} -m CoverageTestRunner --ignore-missing-from=without-tests || die
+	"${EPYTHON}" -m unittest discover -v -p '*_tests.py' || die
 }