diff --git a/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/Makefile b/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/Makefile
index 8d74869a7753..1207ccb174bf 100644
--- a/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	sphinx-argparse
-PORTVERSION=	0.4.0
+DISTVERSION=	0.5.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	sphinx_argparse-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Sphinx extension that automatically documents argparse
 WWW=		https://github.com/ashb/sphinx-argparse
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flit-core>0:devel/py-flit-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx>=1.2.0,1:textproc/py-sphinx@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/distinfo b/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/distinfo
index 92f1cc16b4b2..03f73f86cdc0 100644
--- a/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-sphinx-argparse/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1681312468
-SHA256 (sphinx_argparse-0.4.0.tar.gz) = e0f34184eb56f12face774fbc87b880abdb9017a0998d1ec559b267e9697e449
-SIZE (sphinx_argparse-0.4.0.tar.gz) = 15020
+TIMESTAMP = 1722080973
+SHA256 (sphinx_argparse-0.5.0.tar.gz) = 359f6cb162f5570a95ee629d979e214152b2869463f51cd4612895c18fa42b7c
+SIZE (sphinx_argparse-0.5.0.tar.gz) = 27637