diff --git a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
index 679696c378746..d7c19c03f4ae6 100644
--- a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE="+cython doc +libev +murmur test"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '=dev-python/futures-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python2_7)
+	~dev-python/futures-2.2.0
+	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/six-1.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
diff --git a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/metadata.xml b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/metadata.xml
index f615e39e47fc9..45c0df3d7c45f 100644
--- a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/metadata.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
 	<herd>python</herd>