diff --git a/devel/py-construct-classes/Makefile b/devel/py-construct-classes/Makefile
index 2d3f7c862424..b25bc86539c6 100644
--- a/devel/py-construct-classes/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-construct-classes/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	construct-classes
-PORTVERSION=	0.2.2
+PORTVERSION=	0.2.3
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:C/-/_/}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ehaupt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Parse your binary structs into dataclasses
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/construct-classes/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flit-core>0:devel/py-flit-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}construct>=2.10:devel/py-construct@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-construct-classes/distinfo b/devel/py-construct-classes/distinfo
index 7ccb31ec97cd..7a7db5a6abbb 100644
--- a/devel/py-construct-classes/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-construct-classes/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1758980660
-SHA256 (construct_classes-0.2.2.tar.gz) = c644026fef4d082fd6632efa974376d77e8be7d95e4e57a6df74407fc0954efd
-SIZE (construct_classes-0.2.2.tar.gz) = 4622
+TIMESTAMP = 1775829522
+SHA256 (construct_classes-0.2.3.tar.gz) = 669ccbb8545a4a67a6213a23ab6201368bb0c960d9d0861f236a9829f05b6abf
+SIZE (construct_classes-0.2.3.tar.gz) = 5411
diff --git a/devel/py-construct-classes/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-construct-classes/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index a1c6c9d9d92b..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-construct-classes/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ readme = "README.rst"
- authors = [{ name = "matejcik", email = "ja@matejcik.cz" }]
- requires-python = ">=3.10,<4.0"
- readme = "README.rst"
--license = "MIT"
-+license = { text = "MIT" }
- classifiers = [
-     "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
-     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-@@ -36,16 +36,8 @@ dev = [
-     "typing-extensions>4.2",
- ]
- 
--[build-system]
--requires = ["uv_build>=0.8.13,<0.9.0"]
--build-backend = "uv_build"
--
--[tool.uv.build-backend]
--source-include = [
--    "CHANGELOG.rst",
--    "LICENSE",
--    "README.rst",
--]
-+requires = ["setuptools>=68", "wheel"]
-+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__"
- 
- [tool.isort]
- profile = "black"