diff --git a/dev-python/pandocfilters/pandocfilters-1.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pandocfilters/pandocfilters-1.5.0.ebuild
index 82b3946c64f0c..8b3a84608114d 100644
--- a/dev-python/pandocfilters/pandocfilters-1.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pandocfilters/pandocfilters-1.5.0.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} )
 inherit distutils-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="Utilities for writing pandoc filters in python"