diff --git a/dev-python/recommonmark/recommonmark-0.6.0.ebuild b/dev-python/recommonmark/recommonmark-0.6.0.ebuild
index 0123456..0123456 100644
--- a/dev-python/recommonmark/recommonmark-0.6.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/recommonmark/recommonmark-0.6.0.ebuild
@@ -19,17 +19,12 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x8
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/commonmark-0.8.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/docutils-0.14[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	<dev-python/sphinx-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# known broken with new sphinx
-	# https://github.com/readthedocs/recommonmark/issues/164
-	sed -e 's:test_lists:_&:' \
-		-e '/CustomExtensionTests/s:SphinxIntegrationTests:object:' \
-		-i tests/test_sphinx.py || die
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-tests-sphinx-html.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-tests-sphinx3.patch"
+)
 
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
+distutils_enable_tests pytest