diff --git a/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-1.8.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-1.8.0.ebuild
index 82af5e42bc7a6..c3b2cd42dbad8 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-1.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-1.8.0.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_6,3_7} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{3_6,3_7} )
 
 inherit multilib-minimal python-any-r1
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-9999.ebuild b/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-9999.ebuild
index 0921bb7c55824..ffddd6b0bd13c 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-9999.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_6,3_7} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{3_6,3_7} )
 
 inherit multilib-minimal python-any-r1