diff --git a/dev-python/mecab-python/files/mecab-python-py3.diff b/dev-python/mecab-python/files/mecab-python-python3.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from dev-python/mecab-python/files/mecab-python-py3.diff
rename to dev-python/mecab-python/files/mecab-python-python3.patch
diff --git a/dev-python/mecab-python/mecab-python-0.996.ebuild b/dev-python/mecab-python/mecab-python-0.996.ebuild
index 5353e1b64a03e..00f94ba5cc751 100644
--- a/dev-python/mecab-python/mecab-python-0.996.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/mecab-python/mecab-python-0.996.ebuild
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ IUSE=""
 DEPEND="~app-text/mecab-${PV}"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-py3.diff )
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-python3.patch )
 DOCS=( AUTHORS README test.py )
 HTML_DOCS=( bindings.html )