diff --git a/docs/changelog/2796.misc.rst b/docs/changelog/2796.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ea0d60d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/2796.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Relax the assertion in ``test_list_installed_deps`` to allow packages
+other than ``pip`` to be present in the fresh venv, to fix tests
+on PyPy.
diff --git a/tests/tox_env/python/test_python_api.py b/tests/tox_env/python/test_python_api.py
index 90e2ab655..0520ff173 100644
--- a/tests/tox_env/python/test_python_api.py
+++ b/tests/tox_env/python/test_python_api.py
@@ -186,6 +186,6 @@ def test_list_installed_deps(in_ci: bool, tox_project: ToxProjectCreator, mocker
     mocker.patch("tox.tox_env.python.api.is_ci", return_value=in_ci)
     result = tox_project({"tox.ini": "[testenv]\nskip_install = true"}).run("r", "-e", "py")
     if in_ci:
-        assert "py: pip==" in result.out
+        assert "pip==" in result.out
     else:
-        assert "py: pip==" not in result.out
+        assert "pip==" not in result.out