diff --git a/dev-vcs/irker/irker-1.6.ebuild b/dev-vcs/irker/irker-1.6.ebuild
index 46e3b48..b23e1b9 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/irker/irker-1.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-vcs/irker/irker-1.6.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=4
-inherit base
+inherit base python
 
 DESCRIPTION="Specialized IRC notification daemon"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/"
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ greenlets? ( dev-python/eventlet )"
 src_prepare() {
 	base_src_prepare
 
+	python_convert_shebangs 2 irkerd irkerhook.py
+
 	sed -i 's/xmlto/xmlto --skip-validation/' Makefile
 }