diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/patches/1030.patch b/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/patches/1030.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6abb9267244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/patches/1030.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+From 778bd7a31d2f5fae98652735e7844533589ca221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ben Cipollini <bcipollini@classy.org>
+Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:26:07 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] #1029 - migrate requirements to setup.py, reference in
+ requirements.txt
+
+---
+ requirements.txt |  7 +++----
+ setup.py         | 11 ++++++-----
+ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git requirements.txt requirements.txt
+index 14440314..cd8c47d3 100644
+--- requirements.txt
++++ requirements.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
+-requests>=2.11.1
+-requests_oauthlib>=0.7.0
+-six>=1.10.0
+-PySocks>=1.5.7
++--index-url https://pypi.python.org/simple/
++
++-e .
+diff --git setup.py setup.py
+index 18c59108..5688c2f5 100644
+--- setup.py
++++ setup.py
+@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
+ #from distutils.core import setup
+ import re, uuid
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+-from pip.req import parse_requirements
+ 
+ VERSIONFILE = "tweepy/__init__.py"
+ ver_file = open(VERSIONFILE, "rt").read()
+@@ -14,9 +13,6 @@
+ else:
+     raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string in %s." % (VERSIONFILE,))
+ 
+-install_reqs = parse_requirements('requirements.txt', session=uuid.uuid1())
+-reqs = [str(req.req) for req in install_reqs]
+-
+ setup(name="tweepy",
+       version=version,
+       description="Twitter library for python",
+@@ -25,7 +21,12 @@
+       author_email="tweepy@googlegroups.com",
+       url="http://github.com/tweepy/tweepy",
+       packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
+-      install_requires=reqs,
++      install_requires=[
++          "requests>=2.11.1",
++          "requests_oauthlib>=0.7.0",
++          "six>=1.10.0",
++          "PySocks>=1.5.7",
++      ],
+       keywords="twitter library",
+       classifiers=[
+           'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template b/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template
index 61267874158..bc779970dae 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-tweepy/template
@@ -1,31 +1,30 @@
 # Template file for 'python-tweepy'
 pkgname=python-tweepy
 version=3.6.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
+noarch=yes
 wrksrc="tweepy-${version}"
 build_style=python-module
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools python-pip python3-pip"
-depends="python-requests-oauthlib"
-checkdepends="python3-requests-oauthlib"
-short_desc="Twitter library for python"
+pycompile_module="tweepy"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
+depends="python-requests-oauthlib python-six python-pysocks"
+short_desc="Twitter library for Python2"
 maintainer="maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
-homepage="https://pypy.python.org/pypi/tweepy/3.5.0"
+homepage="https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy"
 distfiles="https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=70f0c02b6249a3a7551328f731f1b90c822a780eb2fd15eaef4510a477c9f33c
-noarch=yes
-
-do_check() {
-	python3 setup.py test
-}
 
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE
+	# remove examples from site-packages root
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/examples
 }
 
 python3-tweepy_package() {
 	noarch=yes
-	depends="python3-requests-oauthlib"
+	pycompile_module="tweepy"
+	depends="python3-requests-oauthlib python3-six python3-pysocks"
 	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/lib/python3*