diff --git a/lang/python/chardet/Makefile b/lang/python/chardet/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 27020c759..000000000
--- a/lang/python/chardet/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2007-2017 OpenWrt.org
-#
-# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
-# See /LICENSE for more information.
-#
-
-include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
-
-PKG_NAME:=chardet
-PKG_VERSION:=3.0.4
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
-PKG_LICENSE:=LGPL-2.1
-
-PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://pypi.python.org/packages/fc/bb/a5768c230f9ddb03acc9ef3f0d4a3cf93462473795d18e9535498c8f929d/
-PKG_HASH:=84ab92ed1c4d4f16916e05906b6b75a6c0fb5db821cc65e70cbd64a3e2a5eaae
-
-include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
-include ../python-package.mk
-
-define Package/chardet
-  SUBMENU:=Python
-  SECTION:=lang
-  CATEGORY:=Languages
-  MAINTAINER:=Gergely Kiss <mail.gery@gmail.com>
-  TITLE:=Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
-  URL:=https://github.com/chardet/chardet
-  DEPENDS:=+python
-endef
-
-define Package/chardet/description
-  Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
-endef
-
-define Build/Compile
-	$(call Build/Compile/PyMod,,install --prefix=/usr --root=$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR))
-endef
-
-define Package/chardet/install
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
-	$(CP) \
-	    $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)/* \
-	    $(1)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)
-	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/chardetect \
-	    $(1)/usr/bin
-	# fix python exec path in scripts
-	sed -i 's/#!.*/#!\/usr\/bin\/python/g' $(1)/usr/bin/chardetect
-endef
-
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,chardet))
diff --git a/lang/python/python-chardet/Makefile b/lang/python/python-chardet/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24d164ada
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/python/python-chardet/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2017 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=python-chardet
+PKG_VERSION:=3.0.4
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_LICENSE:=LGPL-2.1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=chardet-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://pypi.python.org/packages/fc/bb/a5768c230f9ddb03acc9ef3f0d4a3cf93462473795d18e9535498c8f929d/
+PKG_HASH:=84ab92ed1c4d4f16916e05906b6b75a6c0fb5db821cc65e70cbd64a3e2a5eaae
+PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(BUILD_VARIANT)-chardet-$(PKG_VERSION)
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+include ../python-package.mk
+include ../python3-package.mk
+
+PKG_UNPACK:=$(HOST_TAR) -C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) --strip-components=1 -xzf $(DL_DIR)/$(PKG_SOURCE)
+
+define Package/python-chardet/Defaults
+  SUBMENU:=Python
+  SECTION:=lang
+  CATEGORY:=Languages
+  MAINTAINER:=Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
+  URL:=https://github.com/chardet/chardet
+endef
+
+define Package/python-chardet
+$(call Package/python-chardet/Default)
+  TITLE:=Universal encoding detector for Python 2
+  DEPENDS:=+PACKAGE_python-chardet:python
+  VARIANT:=python
+endef
+
+define Package/python3-chardet
+$(call Package/python-chardet/Default)
+  TITLE:=Universal encoding detector for Python3
+  DEPENDS:=+PACKAGE_python3-chardet:python3-light
+  VARIANT:=python3
+endef
+
+define Package/python-chardet/description
+  Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
+endef
+
+define Package/python3-chardet/description
+$(call Package/python-chardet/description)
+.
+(Variant for Python3)
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-chardet))
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-chardet))
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-chardet-src))
+
+$(eval $(call Py3Package,python3-chardet))
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-chardet))
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-chardet-src))