diff --git a/sci-misc/mendeleydesktop/mendeleydesktop-1.19.4.ebuild b/sci-misc/mendeleydesktop/mendeleydesktop-1.19.4.ebuild
index 52daa661627a9..5daa682e978a1 100644
--- a/sci-misc/mendeleydesktop/mendeleydesktop-1.19.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-misc/mendeleydesktop/mendeleydesktop-1.19.4.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_6,3_7} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
 
 inherit desktop python-single-r1 xdg