diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bc1b873..10d4bc3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+logbook (1.5.3-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Complete python2 removal, which was done already as a NMU but that the
+    maintainer decided to ignore and perform partially; Closes: #936962
+
+ -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:24:20 -0400
+
 logbook (1.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Remove python2 package.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2973eb7..2c53968 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,16 +7,12 @@
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper-compat (= 12),
  dh-python,
- python-all,
- python-setuptools,
  python3-all,
  python3-setuptools,
- python-sphinx (>= 1.0.7+dfsg) | python3-sphinx,
- python-docutils,
- python2.7-doc,
- cython,
+ python3-sphinx,
+ python3-docutils,
+ python3-doc,
  cython3,
- python2.7-dev,
  python3-dev,
 Standards-Version: 4.4.1
 Homepage: http://pythonhosted.org/Logbook/
@@ -37,7 +33,7 @@
 Package: python-logbook-doc
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${sphinxdoc:Depends}
-Suggests: python-doc
+Suggests: python3-doc
 Section: doc
 Description: logging system for Python that replaces the standard library's module (doc)
  Logbook is a logging system for Python that replaces the standard library's
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 93a692d..825e9b4 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 0001-Point-intersphinx-map-to-local-doc.patch
+use-cython3.patch
diff --git a/debian/patches/use-cython3.patch b/debian/patches/use-cython3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db93071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/use-cython3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ docs:
+ 	make -C docs html SPHINXOPTS=-Aonline=1
+ 
+ release: logbook/_speedups.so
+-	python scripts/make-release.py
++	@python scripts/make-release.py
+ 
+ logbook/_speedups.so: logbook/_speedups.pyx
+-	cython logbook/_speedups.pyx
+-	python setup.py build_ext --inplace
++	cython3 logbook/_speedups.pyx
++	python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace
+ 
+ cybuild: logbook/_speedups.so
+