diff --git a/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest b/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
index c43ec207c..46c4a5f82 100644
--- a/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
+++ b/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST libvshadow-alpha-20170715.tar.gz 1391482 SHA256 b29dd22b6b12bcf84317e27eed0117ef3efa0549bfd7d3d67f4f44c9dd64ade2 SHA512 4fb83db529203c4023d4704201830187cf4dda57923d74a3becf3d23bbd028089de4bf1466288abcf4619baf3396d3f957a41a4dbe6c8f9fa4d35bf8129ca5e6 WHIRLPOOL 712544b451af075ad4c0e034462fa96a2175d5f8e3b030dbf731660c545ec986501bdc7390de338f894e78a8da9007bb88dece83c860c40e78fa7c9e4a3d3c81
 DIST libvshadow-alpha-20170902.tar.gz 1395385 SHA256 9e23a14ee08ad4cc218c63ec8ca350b4951e347ccf3040c365860a399730f261 SHA512 9b47beea075fcc59a77fc2a958badca95bc41c5bff0c80968628e2509223e73caf5e67c3fa4ec1412001d948355bda3720838fab5d77008642cf61ac980dfb1c WHIRLPOOL 9de7bdb6bfec02d0cf2db24f45409e3031b6a1fd0084cd9ecafc27cd86220e7c6dea1fcf3380599de46dd1714fc51287c6f656654947c1b31ebc3cda465e7b8f
diff --git a/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170715_alpha.ebuild b/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170715_alpha.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 593e64c58..000000000
--- a/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170715_alpha.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_{6,7} )
-inherit versionator python-single-r1
-
-MY_PV="$(get_major_version)"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library and tools to support the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format."
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}/releases/download/${MY_PV}/${PN}-alpha-${MY_PV}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-3+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
-IUSE="debug python nls unicode"
-
-DEPEND="nls? (
-	virtual/libintl
-	virtual/libiconv
-	)
-	python? ( dev-lang/python:* )
-	sys-fs/fuse:*
-	app-forensics/libbfio
-
-	dev-libs/libcdata
-	dev-libs/libcerror
-	dev-libs/libcfile
-	dev-libs/libclocale
-	dev-libs/libcnotify
-	dev-libs/libcpath
-	dev-libs/libcsplit
-	dev-libs/libcthreads
-	dev-libs/libfdatetime
-	dev-libs/libfguid
-	dev-libs/libuna
-"
-
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	sys-fs/fuse"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	#workaround, see https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/issues/10
-	echo "#define HAVE_ERRNO_H 1" >> common/config.h.in
-	eapply_user
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf $(use_enable python) \
-		$(use_enable nls) \
-		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
-		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
-		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type) \
-		$(use_enable debug debug-output) \
-		$(use_enable debug verbose-output) \
-		--with-libcdata --with-libcerror --with-libcfile \
-		--with-libclocale --with-libcnotify --with-libcpath \
-		--with-libcsplit --with-libcthreads --with-libfdatetime \
-		--with-libfguid --with-libuna
-}
diff --git a/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170902.ebuild b/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170902.ebuild
index 2f86f3e66..50f502e66 100644
--- a/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170902.ebuild
+++ b/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20170902.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=6
 
+#FIXME: add python3 support
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_{6,7} )
 inherit python-single-r1
 
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
 IUSE="debug python nls unicode"
 
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
+
 DEPEND="nls? (
 	virtual/libintl
 	virtual/libiconv
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ DEPEND="nls? (
 "
 
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
 	sys-fs/fuse"
 
 src_prepare() {