diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/README.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2201b2966
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The sole reason for having this package in coreos-overlay is to lower
+the version of the python3 dependency. When we update python3 to
+something recent, we can move it back to portage-stable.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/talloc-2.3.2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/talloc-2.3.2.ebuild
index 851fdbb724..25ef353598 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/talloc-2.3.2.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-libs/talloc/talloc-2.3.2.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_6 )
 PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
 inherit waf-utils python-single-r1 multilib-minimal