diff -Naur fail2ban-0.11.2.orig/setup.py fail2ban-0.11.2/setup.py
--- fail2ban-0.11.2.orig/setup.py	2020-11-23 21:43:03.000000000 +0100
+++ fail2ban-0.11.2/setup.py	2021-10-30 21:08:31.199168000 +0200
@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@
 	from distutils.command.install_scripts import install_scripts
 try:
 	# python 3.x
-	from distutils.command.build_py import build_py_2to3
-	from distutils.command.build_scripts import build_scripts_2to3
-	_2to3 = True
+	_2to3 = False
 except ImportError:
 	# python 2.x
 	_2to3 = False
@@ -186,7 +184,7 @@
 if setuptools:
 	setup_extra = {
 		'test_suite': "fail2ban.tests.utils.gatherTests",
-		'use_2to3': True,
+		'use_2to3': False,
 	}
 else:
 	setup_extra = {}