diff --git a/meta-security/recipes-security/fail2ban/python3-fail2ban_0.11.2.bb b/meta-security/recipes-security/fail2ban/python3-fail2ban_0.11.2.bb
index 4118732..96e17b7 100644
--- a/meta-security/recipes-security/fail2ban/python3-fail2ban_0.11.2.bb
+++ b/meta-security/recipes-security/fail2ban/python3-fail2ban_0.11.2.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ecabc31e90311da843753ba772885d9f"
 
+DEPENDS = "python3-native"
+
 SRCREV ="4fe4ac8dde6ba14841da598ec37f8c6911fe0f64"
 SRC_URI = " git://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban.git;branch=0.11;protocol=https \
         file://initd \
@@ -21,6 +23,11 @@
 
 do_compile () {
     cd ${S}
+
+    #remove symlink to python3
+    # otherwise 2to3 is run against it
+    rm -f bin/fail2ban-python
+
     ./fail2ban-2to3
 }