diff --git a/net-news/canto-curses/canto-curses-0.9.9.ebuild b/net-news/canto-curses/canto-curses-0.9.9.ebuild
index 7eebcfacdac4f..e3cc29d7e0e03 100644
--- a/net-news/canto-curses/canto-curses-0.9.9.ebuild
+++ b/net-news/canto-curses/canto-curses-0.9.9.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
 PYTHON_REQ_USE="ncurses(+),threads(+)"
 inherit distutils-r1