diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index 8783b48951..4b1733ad15 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ ubuntu-*|i386/debian-*|debian-*)
 		tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl \
 		libemail-valid-perl libio-pty-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libcgi-pm-perl \
 		libsecret-1-dev libpcre2-dev meson ninja-build pkg-config cargo \
-		${CC_PACKAGE:-${CC:-gcc}} $PYTHON_PACKAGE
+		${CC_PACKAGE:-${CC:-gcc}} python3
 
 	# Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, sudo can now be provided via either
 	# sudo(1) or sudo-rs(1), with the latter being the default. The problem
diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
index d99e7b9da1..3ec10488d4 100755
--- a/ci/lib.sh
+++ b/ci/lib.sh
@@ -335,16 +335,7 @@ esac
 
 case "$distro" in
 ubuntu-*)
-	# Python 2 is end of life, and Ubuntu 23.04 and newer don't actually
-	# have it anymore. We thus only test with Python 2 on older LTS
-	# releases.
-	if test "$distro" = "ubuntu-20.04"
-	then
-		PYTHON_PACKAGE=python2
-	else
-		PYTHON_PACKAGE=python3
-	fi
-	MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/$PYTHON_PACKAGE"
+	MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/python3"
 
 	export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true