diff --git a/dev-python/smartypants/metadata.xml b/dev-python/smartypants/metadata.xml
index 21caf30ef387a..5f9e81afc7a89 100644
--- a/dev-python/smartypants/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/smartypants/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 	<name>Steve Arnold</name>
 </maintainer>
 <longdescription lang="en">
-	smartypants is a Python fork of SmartyPants (wha?)
+	smartypants does transformations of plain old ASCII straight quotes,
+	plain dashes, and plain dots, into smart quotes, em-dashes, and
+	proper ellipses.
 </longdescription>
 <upstream>
 	<remote-id type="pypi">smartypants</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-2.0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-2.0.1.ebuild
index 1f0d94682d72a..4edd324c0a6da 100644
--- a/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-2.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-2.0.1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..8} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..9} )
 DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
 
 MY_PN="${PN}.py"
diff --git a/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-9999.ebuild b/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-9999.ebuild
index 1f0d94682d72a..4edd324c0a6da 100644
--- a/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/smartypants/smartypants-9999.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..8} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..9} )
 DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
 
 MY_PN="${PN}.py"