diff --git a/backports/py3-daemon/APKBUILD b/backports/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
index 6414d62..416cd99 100644
--- a/backports/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
+++ b/backports/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Noel Kuntze <noel.kuntze@thermi.consulting>
 pkgname=py3-daemon
 pkgver=2.3.2
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process"
 url="https://pagure.io/python-daemon"
 options="!check" # Has lots of dependencies
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ license="Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later"
 depends="py3-setuptools py3-lockfile"
 makedepends="py3-docutils"
 subpackages="$pkgname-pyc"
-source="https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/python-daemon/python-daemon-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="
+	https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/python-daemon/python-daemon-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	remove-docutils-depend.patch
+"
 builddir="$srcdir/python-daemon-$pkgver"
 
 prepare() {
@@ -33,4 +36,5 @@ package() {
 
 sha512sums="
 d9f6e6c376a496fae96bd9efed0a56d00a137617a3d1d5ef74802ef176bc813bb1d49bbb9164cdbec03213529f944b32b257bcc64283abfa4a3522ff00826bfd  python-daemon-2.3.2.tar.gz
+20bc4bce7fba9754d1c9bca298f9b4ff7fe90ecf51769df2020912f370650a5997f91c99c6be2ecffed10a6b359a29b1f64b0c391772451eb3c04769df381015  remove-docutils-depend.patch
 "
diff --git a/backports/py3-daemon/remove-docutils-depend.patch b/backports/py3-daemon/remove-docutils-depend.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bbc3be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backports/py3-daemon/remove-docutils-depend.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py.orig b/setup.py
+index 24f0e7cb98a..d712294c20b 100644
+--- a/setup.py.orig
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -96,11 +96,6 @@ setup_kwargs = dict(
+             ],
+         )
+ 
+-# Docutils is only required for building, but Setuptools can't distinguish
+-# dependencies properly.
+-# See <URL:https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/457>.
+-setup_kwargs['install_requires'].append("docutils")
+-
+ 
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
+     setup(**setup_kwargs)