diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 0624d9bfc..7412201e6 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 renderspec>=1.2.0,!=1.9.0
-spec_cleaner>=0.8.9,!=1.0.8
+spec_cleaner>=1.0.9
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2fa5d5cba..4f1d3d6fa 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ envlist = rpm-packaging-lint
 skipsdist = True
 
 [testenv]
+basepython = python3
 setenv =
     VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
     LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8