diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.4.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.4.0.ebuild
index 9c7beffb4e094..a5b5ca1ad169d 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.4.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.4.0.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{6,7} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
 DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
 inherit distutils-r1 eutils libtool multilib multilib-minimal
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.5.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.5.0.ebuild
index b4d5471529ec8..28138672f5b28 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.5.0.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{6,7,8} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
 DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
 inherit distutils-r1 libtool multilib-minimal
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-99999999.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-99999999.ebuild
index 619ab299650d1..9a6a52092d767 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-99999999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-99999999.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{6,7,8} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
 DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
 inherit autotools distutils-r1 git-r3 libtool multilib multilib-minimal