diff --git a/profiles/package.deprecated b/profiles/package.deprecated
index 731d77731b526..eb9098f7a8313 100644
--- a/profiles/package.deprecated
+++ b/profiles/package.deprecated
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2020-03-25)
+# Provides 'pytest' command to setup.py that is entirely redundant.
+# Strip the dependency, run pytest directly (preferably
+# via 'distutils_enable_tests pytest').
+dev-python/pytest-runner
+
 # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2020-03-17)
 # Deprecated GNOME 2 era packages
 # Bugs #640022, #713010