diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 95ae47843..ef9a72cf0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: ridiculous_fish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
 Uploaders: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), libncurses5-dev, cmake3 (>= 3.2.0) | cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
 # Test dependencies
- locales-all
+ locales-all, python3
 # When libpcre2-dev is available on all supported Debian versions, add a dependency on that.
 Standards-Version: 4.1.5
 Homepage: https://fishshell.com/
diff --git a/fish.spec.in b/fish.spec.in
index 7fd41c0c9..d45fb6775 100644
--- a/fish.spec.in
+++ b/fish.spec.in
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ BuildRequires: gcc48 gcc48-c++ python-argparse
 # Need the en_US.utf-8 locale at a minimum
 BuildRequires: glibc-langpack-en
 %endif
-%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} > 7
+%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} < 8
+BuildRequires: python
+%else
 BuildRequires: python3
 %endif