diff --git a/devel/py-schema/Makefile b/devel/py-schema/Makefile
index 9483314b2882..d65245ff3fa2 100644
--- a/devel/py-schema/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-schema/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	schema
-DISTVERSION=	0.7.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	0.7.8
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple data validation library
 WWW=		https://github.com/keleshev/schema
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE-MIT
 
+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 autoplist pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+# tests as of 0.7.8: 118 passed, 1 warning in 0.54s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-schema/distinfo b/devel/py-schema/distinfo
index 6d6b70d50ec6..8028c24f7219 100644
--- a/devel/py-schema/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-schema/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1714892029
-SHA256 (schema-0.7.7.tar.gz) = 7da553abd2958a19dc2547c388cde53398b39196175a9be59ea1caf5ab0a1807
-SIZE (schema-0.7.7.tar.gz) = 44245
+TIMESTAMP = 1780790872
+SHA256 (schema-0.7.8.tar.gz) = e86cc08edd6fe6e2522648f4e47e3a31920a76e82cce8937535422e310862ab5
+SIZE (schema-0.7.8.tar.gz) = 45540