diff --git a/devel/py-rchitect/Makefile b/devel/py-rchitect/Makefile
index 129fd16e5432..064d52742b8a 100644
--- a/devel/py-rchitect/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-rchitect/Makefile
@@ -1,34 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	rchitect
-DISTVERSION=	0.3.40
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	0.4.7
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Interoperate R with Python
 WWW=		https://github.com/randy3k/rchitect
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
-DEPRECATED=	Depends on expired devel/py-pytest-runner
-EXPIRATION_DATE=2025-03-31
-
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.10.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-runner>0:devel/py-pytest-runner@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.10.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.10.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=23.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=1.9.0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD
 CFLAGS+=	-Wno-error=int-conversion -Wno-error=incompatible-function-pointer-types
 .endif
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/rchitect/_cffi.abi3.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-rchitect/distinfo b/devel/py-rchitect/distinfo
index 2c1e93ca651b..dc8ea6679afc 100644
--- a/devel/py-rchitect/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-rchitect/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1689302336
-SHA256 (rchitect-0.3.40.tar.gz) = 1c5de5c4914dcb34225e7b62dbfc5df7b857b0b4bc18d4adf03611c45847b8b7
-SIZE (rchitect-0.3.40.tar.gz) = 32934
+TIMESTAMP = 1742158538
+SHA256 (rchitect-0.4.7.tar.gz) = 6993f58d1a3afce64150643fd602ca008be23a0bb5e78166c3d3c616b59d1888
+SIZE (rchitect-0.4.7.tar.gz) = 32692
diff --git a/devel/py-rchitect/files/patch-setup.py b/devel/py-rchitect/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cea28ba39908
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-rchitect/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2025-03-16 21:00:10 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ setup(
+     install_requires=install_requires,
+     setup_requires=[
+         'cffi>=1.10.0',
+-        "pytest-runner"
+     ],
+     extras_require={
+         "test": [