diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-web.scm b/gnu/packages/python-web.scm
index c1de8197e0..94a7210bbf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python-web.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python-web.scm
@@ -2454,6 +2454,11 @@ APIs.")
 than Python’s urllib2 library.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))
 
+(define (propagated-inputs-filtered overrides old_inputs)
+  (let* ((overrides_names (map caar overrides))
+         (old_inputs_filtered (remove (lambda i (member (caar i) overrides_names) old_inputs))))
+    (concatenate '(old_inputs_filtered overrides))))
+
 ;; Some software requires an older version of Requests, notably Docker/Docker
 ;; Compose.
 (define-public python-requests-2.20
@@ -2466,9 +2471,10 @@ than Python’s urllib2 library.")
                       (base32
                        "0qzj6cgv3k9wyj7wlxgz7xq0cfg4jbbkfm24pp8dnhczwl31527a"))))
            (propagated-inputs
-            `(("python-urllib3" ,python-urllib3-1.24)
-              ("python-idna" ,python-idna-2.7)
-              ,@(package-propagated-inputs python-requests)))))
+             `,@(propagated-inputs-filtered
+               `(("python-urllib3" ,python-urllib3-1.24)
+                 ("python-idna" ,python-idna-2.7))
+               (package-propagated-inputs python-requests)))))
 
 (define-public python2-requests
   (package-with-python2 python-requests))