diff --git a/1594.patch b/1594.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3effeec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1594.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+From f9f51984e14d5d970950d10a8edff5f000196949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
+Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 19:27:53 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Allow both pre- and post- PEP 610 outputs in
+ test_venv_special_chars_issue252
+
+pip 20.1+ supports PEP 610 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0610/
+Hence the output is changed a bit.
+This was acknowledged in 553d6f282119481cbd4cf2a78e633eb8b506659e.
+
+Here we allow to run the tests with pip 19.3.x again
+by relaxing the regex to match both the old and the new format.
+---
+ docs/changelog/1594.misc.rst | 1 +
+ tests/unit/test_z_cmdline.py | 2 +-
+ tox.ini                      | 2 +-
+ 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+ create mode 100644 docs/changelog/1594.misc.rst
+
+diff --git a/docs/changelog/1594.misc.rst b/docs/changelog/1594.misc.rst
+new file mode 100644
+index 000000000..f945be2e2
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/docs/changelog/1594.misc.rst
+@@ -0,0 +1 @@
++Allow to run the tests with pip 19.3.1 once again while preserving the ability to use pip 20.1 - by :user:`hroncok`
+diff --git a/tests/unit/test_z_cmdline.py b/tests/unit/test_z_cmdline.py
+index 291ef4463..7f3b816d8 100644
+--- a/tests/unit/test_z_cmdline.py
++++ b/tests/unit/test_z_cmdline.py
+@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ def test_venv_special_chars_issue252(cmd, initproj):
+     )
+     result = cmd()
+     result.assert_success()
+-    pattern = re.compile("special&&1 installed: .*pkg123 @ .*-0.7.zip.*")
++    pattern = re.compile(r"special&&1 installed: .*pkg123( @ .*-|==)0\.7(\.zip)?.*")
+     assert any(pattern.match(line) for line in result.outlines), "\n".join(result.outlines)
+ 
+ 
+diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
+index 723bd788a..4e2420c4a 100644
+--- a/tox.ini
++++ b/tox.ini
+@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ passenv =
+     PYTEST_*
+     PIP_CACHE_DIR
+ deps =
+-    pip >= 20.1
++    pip >= 19.3.1
+ extras = testing
+ commands = pytest \
+            --cov "{envsitepackagesdir}/tox" \
diff --git a/python-tox.spec b/python-tox.spec
index 63a565c..c20c01c 100644
--- a/python-tox.spec
+++ b/python-tox.spec
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ License:        MIT
 URL:            https://tox.readthedocs.io/
 Source0:        %{pypi_source}
 
+# Allow to run the tests with pip 19.3.1
+Patch1:         https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/pull/1594.patch
+
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description