diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c29c3a783eb..a35c6f8ed1a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 * Make ``install --quiet`` really quiet. See #3418.
 
+* Fix a bug when removing packages in python 3: disable INI-style parsing of the
+  entry_point.txt file to allow entry point names with colons (:pull:`3434`)
+
 
 **8.0.2 (2016-01-21)**
 
diff --git a/pip/req/req_install.py b/pip/req/req_install.py
index 3b48431cd64..b3076e55836 100644
--- a/pip/req/req_install.py
+++ b/pip/req/req_install.py
@@ -727,7 +727,11 @@ def uninstall(self, auto_confirm=False):
 
         # find console_scripts
         if dist.has_metadata('entry_points.txt'):
-            config = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
+            if six.PY2:
+                options = {}
+            else:
+                options = {"delimiters": ('=', )}
+            config = configparser.SafeConfigParser(**options)
             config.readfp(
                 FakeFile(dist.get_metadata_lines('entry_points.txt'))
             )
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 43bab40282f..488ff089907 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 long_description = read('README.rst')
 
-tests_require = ['pytest', 'virtualenv>=1.10', 'scripttest>=1.3', 'mock']
+tests_require = ['pytest', 'virtualenv>=1.10', 'scripttest>=1.3', 'mock',
+                 'pretend']
 
 
 setup(
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py b/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
index d3e7c35048f..882d1454a32 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
@@ -154,6 +154,32 @@ def test_uninstall_overlapping_package(script, data):
     assert_all_changes(result2, result3, [])
 
 
+def test_uninstall_entry_point(script):
+    """
+    Test uninstall package with two or more entry points in the same section,
+    whose name contain a colon.
+    """
+    script.scratch_path.join("ep_install").mkdir()
+    pkg_path = script.scratch_path / 'ep_install'
+    pkg_path.join("setup.py").write(textwrap.dedent("""
+        from setuptools import setup
+        setup(
+            name='ep-install',
+            version='0.1',
+            entry_points={"pip_test.ep":
+                          ["ep:name1 = distutils_install",
+                           "ep:name2 = distutils_install"]
+                          }
+        )
+    """))
+    result = script.pip('install', pkg_path)
+    result = script.pip('list')
+    assert "ep-install (0.1)" in result.stdout
+    script.pip('uninstall', 'ep_install', '-y')
+    result2 = script.pip('list')
+    assert "ep-install (0.1)" not in result2.stdout
+
+
 @pytest.mark.network
 def test_uninstall_console_scripts(script):
     """