diff --git a/7480fcdc8c6585d3f8ac67fe9a4dff0ebb0e479e.patch b/7480fcdc8c6585d3f8ac67fe9a4dff0ebb0e479e.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4db0ffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/7480fcdc8c6585d3f8ac67fe9a4dff0ebb0e479e.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From 7480fcdc8c6585d3f8ac67fe9a4dff0ebb0e479e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
+Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 15:39:00 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Python 3.8: tarfile.filemode is gone, use stat.filemode if
+ available
+
+    >           mode = tarfile.filemode(entry.mode)[1:]
+    E           AttributeError: module 'tarfile' has no attribute 'filemode'
+---
+ tests/__init__.py | 6 +++++-
+ tox.ini           | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
+index 7e922aa..bfca007 100644
+--- a/tests/__init__.py
++++ b/tests/__init__.py
+@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
+ from os.path import abspath, dirname, join
+ from stat import S_ISREG
+ import tarfile
++try:
++    from stat import filemode
++except ImportError:  # Python 2
++    filemode = tarfile.filemode
+ 
+ from libarchive import file_reader
+ 
+@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ def get_tarinfos(location):
+                 path += '/'
+             # libarchive introduces prefixes such as h prefix for
+             # hardlinks: tarfile does not, so we ignore the first char
+-            mode = tarfile.filemode(entry.mode)[1:]
++            mode = filemode(entry.mode)[1:]
+             yield {
+                 'path': path,
+                 'mtime': entry.mtime,
+diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
+index 8973837..1f6b04f 100644
+--- a/tox.ini
++++ b/tox.ini
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ [tox]
+-envlist=py27,py34,py35,py36
++envlist=py27,py34,py35,py36,py37,py38
+ skipsdist=True
+ 
+ [testenv]
diff --git a/python-libarchive-c.spec b/python-libarchive-c.spec
index a199cbb..8d8c0de 100644
--- a/python-libarchive-c.spec
+++ b/python-libarchive-c.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 Name:          python-libarchive-c
 Version:       2.8
-Release:       4%{?dist}
+Release:       5%{?dist}
 Summary:       Python interface to libarchive
 License:       CC0
 URL:           https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c
 Source0:       https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch1:        https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c/commit/7480fcdc8c6585d3f8ac67fe9a4dff0ebb0e479e.patch
+
 BuildRequires: libarchive-devel
 BuildArch:     noarch
 
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ Requires:      libarchive
 %{_fixperms} %{buildroot}
 
 %check
-LC_ALL=C.utf8 py.test-%{python3_version} -s -vv tests
+pytest-%{python3_version} -s -vv tests
 
 %global _docdir_fmt %{name}
 
@@ -51,6 +53,9 @@ LC_ALL=C.utf8 py.test-%{python3_version} -s -vv tests
 %{python3_sitelib}/libarchive*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat May  4 2019 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 2.8-5
+- Fix compatibility with python3.8 (#1705558)
+
 * Sat Feb 02 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild