diff --git a/srcpkgs/gscreenshot/template b/srcpkgs/gscreenshot/template
index 008172670ed..a9af8ac0d8e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gscreenshot/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gscreenshot/template
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'gscreenshot'
 pkgname=gscreenshot
-version=2.17.1
-revision=2
+version=3.3.0
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
-hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools gettext"
-depends="gtk+3 python3-setuptools python3-Pillow python3-gobject scrot"
-short_desc="GUI front-end for the scrot program"
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools gettext go-md2man"
+# refer to https://github.com/thenaterhood/gscreenshot#installation
+# for optional dependencies across system configurations
+depends="gtk+3 python3-setuptools python3-Pillow python3-gobject"
+checkdepends="${depends} python3-mock python3-pytest"
+short_desc="GUI for multiple screenshot backends including scrot, PIL, and grim"
 maintainer="Rui Flora <rui.flora@gmail.com>"
-license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
+license="GPL-2.0-only"
 homepage="https://github.com/thenaterhood/gscreenshot"
-distfiles="https://github.com/thenaterhood/gscreenshot/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=f0cdf81e9ab483e11c04ed27141ac37dd6f24415968bc5f4c874e7b17ca5958d
-# doesn't ship any tests
-make_check=no
+distfiles="https://github.com/thenaterhood/gscreenshot/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=f05e695676cda97483c6cdbebaba9a708b5791e544e977016a772325a1d37231
+
+do_check() {
+	(cd src && PYTHONPATH="$(cd build/lib* && pwd)" python3 -m pytest ../test)
+}