diff --git a/net-p2p/py-transmission-rpc/Makefile b/net-p2p/py-transmission-rpc/Makefile
index 1ed2f836d7e3..5088c03660bf 100644
--- a/net-p2p/py-transmission-rpc/Makefile
+++ b/net-p2p/py-transmission-rpc/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	transmission-rpc
 PORTVERSION=	3.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	net-p2p python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	jbeich@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python module for Transmission bittorent client JSON-RPC protocol
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/transmission-rpc/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}poetry-core>=1.0.0:devel/py-poetry-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=3.7.4.2<5.0.0.0:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.23.0<3.0.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.7+
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>