diff --git a/dev-python/cheroot/cheroot-8.5.2.ebuild b/dev-python/cheroot/cheroot-8.5.2.ebuild
index ad187eb5f9bd9..7e86198532791 100644
--- a/dev-python/cheroot/cheroot-8.5.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cheroot/cheroot-8.5.2.ebuild
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
 inherit distutils-r1
 
-DESCRIPTION="Cheroot is the high-performance, pure-Python HTTP server used by CherryPy."
+DESCRIPTION="High-performance, pure-Python HTTP server used by CherryPy"
 HOMEPAGE="https://cherrypy.org/
 	https://pypi.org/project/cheroot/
 	https://github.com/cherrypy/cheroot/"
@@ -57,5 +56,5 @@ python_prepare_all() {
 
 python_test() {
 	cd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
-	pytest -vv || die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+	epytest
 }