diff --git a/changelog/3826.trivial.rst b/changelog/3826.trivial.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5354d0df9c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/3826.trivial.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Replace broken type annotations with type comments.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
index a6634cd1162..cc8921e6599 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
@@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ class FuncFixtureInfo(object):
     # fixture names specified via usefixtures and via autouse=True in fixture
     # definitions.
     initialnames = attr.ib(type=tuple)
-    names_closure = attr.ib(type="List[str]")
-    name2fixturedefs = attr.ib(type="List[str, List[FixtureDef]]")
+    names_closure = attr.ib()  # type: List[str]
+    name2fixturedefs = attr.ib()  # type: List[str, List[FixtureDef]]
 
     def prune_dependency_tree(self):
         """Recompute names_closure from initialnames and name2fixturedefs