diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c83372c..0f51c86 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: rpi-eeprom
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Serge Schneider <serge@raspberrypi.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), help2man, python-minimal
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), help2man, python3-minimal
 Standards-Version: 4.1.3
 Homepage: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Vcs-Git: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom.git
 Package: rpi-eeprom
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, rpi-eeprom-images, libraspberrypi-bin,
- python, binutils, raspberrypi-bootloader (>= 1.20190819), pciutils
+ python3, binutils, raspberrypi-bootloader (>= 1.20190819), pciutils
 Breaks: rpi-eeprom-images (<<7.2)
 Replaces: rpi-eeprom-images (<<7.2)
 Recommends: flashrom
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25a9b87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+use_python3.patch
diff --git a/debian/patches/use_python3.patch b/debian/patches/use_python3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc7264e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/use_python3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- a/rpi-eeprom-config
++++ b/rpi-eeprom-config
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env python
++#!/usr/bin/env python3
+ 
+ # rpi-eeprom-config
+ # Utility for reading and writing the configuration file in the