diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index a3d0b7ef..8520b33e 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ depends 'etcd', '~> 3.0'
 depends 'mariadb', '~> 1.5'
 depends 'memcached', '~> 4.1'
 depends 'mysql', '~> 8.2'
-depends 'poise-python', '~> 1.5'
+depends 'poise-python', '~> 1.7'
 depends 'selinux'
 
 issues_url 'https://launchpad.net/openstack-chef' if respond_to?(:issues_url)
diff --git a/recipes/default.rb b/recipes/default.rb
index 9e52a8f2..11343478 100644
--- a/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/recipes/default.rb
@@ -18,16 +18,9 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-# install a python, working around the epoch on RHEL
-case node['platform_family']
-when 'debian', 'ubuntu'
-  python_runtime '2' do
-    provider :system
-  end
-when 'rhel'
-  python_runtime '0:2' do
-    provider :system
-  end
+# install a python
+python_runtime '2' do
+  provider :system
 end
 
 platform_options = node['openstack']['common']['platform']