diff --git a/0002-Remove-epydoc-imports-and-epydoc-calls.patch b/0002-Remove-epydoc-imports-and-epydoc-calls.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3f6dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-Remove-epydoc-imports-and-epydoc-calls.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+From 2c2d91e430fe841ee0afe8deaec318b74d756cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christophe Vu-Brugier <cvubrugier@fastmail.fm>
+Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:19:59 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove epydoc imports and epydoc calls
+
+Epydoc is no longer maintained and only supported for Python 2 whereas
+most distributions package targetcli-fb for Python 3 (RHEL, Fedora,
+Debian). As a consequence, the help messages for configshell commands
+are not rendered with Epydoc on most systems and it is probably safe
+to remove the Epydoc dependency entirely.
+
+For more information, see:
+
+  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881554
+
+Signed-off-by: Christophe Vu-Brugier <cvubrugier@fastmail.fm>
+---
+ configshell/console.py | 31 +++++++++----------------------
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configshell/console.py b/configshell/console.py
+index 8ed6b50..80e723c 100644
+--- a/configshell/console.py
++++ b/configshell/console.py
+@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ import tty
+ 
+ from .prefs import Prefs
+ 
+-# avoid requiring epydoc at runtime
+-try:
+-    import epydoc.markup.epytext
+-except ImportError:
+-    pass
+-
+ class Console(object):
+     '''
+     Implements various utility methods providing a console UI support toolkit,
+@@ -166,19 +160,12 @@ class Console(object):
+         Renders and print and epytext-formatted text on the console.
+         '''
+         text = self.dedent(text)
+-        try:
+-            dom_tree = epydoc.markup.epytext.parse(text, None)
+-        except NameError:
+-            # epydoc not installed, strip markup
+-            dom_tree = text
+-            dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("B{", "")
+-            dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("I{", "")
+-            dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("C{", "")
+-            dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("}", "")
+-            dom_tree += "\n"
+-        except:
+-            self.display(text)
+-            raise
++        dom_tree = text
++        dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("B{", "")
++        dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("I{", "")
++        dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("C{", "")
++        dom_tree = dom_tree.replace("}", "")
++        dom_tree += "\n"
+         text = self.render_domtree(dom_tree)
+         # We need to remove the last line feed, but there might be
+         # escape characters after it...
+@@ -412,9 +399,9 @@ class Console(object):
+             text = self.render_text(
+                 childstr, styles=['underline'], todefault=True)
+         elif tree.tag == 'symbol':
+-            text = '%s' \
+-                    % epydoc.markup.epytext.SYMBOL_TO_PLAINTEXT.get(
+-                        childstr, childstr)
++            # Should not occur because this module does not have
++            # docstrings with symbols (e.g. S{alpha}).
++            raise NotImplementedError
+         elif tree.tag == 'graph':
+             text = '<<%s graph: %s>>' \
+                     % (variables[0], ', '.join(variables[1:]))
+-- 
+2.42.0.windows.2
+
diff --git a/python-configshell.spec b/python-configshell.spec
index d2c222c..ac6c856 100644
--- a/python-configshell.spec
+++ b/python-configshell.spec
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@
 Name:		python-configshell
 Summary:	Python library that provides a framework for building simple but nice CLI-based applications.
 Version:	1.1.27
-Release:	5
+Release:	6
 License:	ASL 2.0
 URL:		https://github.com/open-iscsi/configshell-fb
 Source0:	https://github.com/open-iscsi/configshell-fb/archive/v1.1.27.tar.gz
 BuildArch:	noarch
 
 Patch01:        0001-Ensure-that-all-output-reaches-the-client-when-daemo.patch
+Patch02:        0002-Remove-epydoc-imports-and-epydoc-calls.patch
 
 %global _description\
 %{name} is a Python library that provides a framework for building simple but nice CLI-based applications.\
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ popd
 %doc README.md
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Nov 28 2023 liubo <liubo1@xfusion.com> - 1.1.27-6
+- Remove epydoc imports and epydoc calls
+
 * Wed Nov 1 2023 liubo <liubo1@xfusion.com> - 1.1.27-5
 - Repair log message