diff --git a/devel/py-plac/Makefile b/devel/py-plac/Makefile
index e5208b5c72d2..ffd23198f3cc 100644
--- a/devel/py-plac/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-plac/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	plac
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.3
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.5
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Command line arguments parser for python
 WWW=		https://github.com/ialbert/plac
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}argparse>0:devel/py-argparse@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils concurrent autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517 pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/doc
+
+# tests as of 1.4.5: 26 passed, 2 failed
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-plac/distinfo b/devel/py-plac/distinfo
index 0ae1d176bba1..5629ebd3fcf2 100644
--- a/devel/py-plac/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-plac/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1712366730
-SHA256 (plac-1.4.3.tar.gz) = d4cb3387b2113a28aebd509433d0264a4e5d9bb7c1a86db4fbd0a8f11af74eb3
-SIZE (plac-1.4.3.tar.gz) = 38984
+TIMESTAMP = 1781207600
+SHA256 (plac-1.4.5.tar.gz) = 5f05bf85235c017fcd76c73c8101d4ff8e96beb3dc58b9a37de49cac7de82d14
+SIZE (plac-1.4.5.tar.gz) = 38988