diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil-devel b/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index b1f4b023230..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python3-snakeoil
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil/template b/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil/template
index 2156091b492..aa3927fce18 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-snakeoil/template
@@ -1,38 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-snakeoil'
 pkgname=python3-snakeoil
-version=0.8.8
-revision=4
-build_style=python3-module
-hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools python3-Cython"
-makedepends="python3-devel"
-depends="python3"
+version=0.10.5
+revision=1
+build_style=python3-pep517
+hostmakedepends="python3-flit_core"
+depends="python3-lazy-object-proxy"
+checkdepends="${depends} lbzip2 tar xz python3-pytest-xdist"
 short_desc="Python3 optimized versions of common python functionality"
 maintainer="Toyam Cox <Vaelatern@voidlinux.org>"
-license="BSD-3-Clause, GPL-2.0-only"
-homepage="https://github.com/pkgcore/snakeoil"
-# changelog="https://github.com/pkgcore/snakeoil/blob/master/NEWS.rst"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="https://pkgcore.github.io/snakeoil/"
+changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgcore/snakeoil/master/NEWS.rst"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/s/snakeoil/snakeoil-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=8381ed730cb4c127c2cb5f99ed8a148d3f2bc492de21f035aae8913f7a106d63
-
-post_extract() {
-	local _f
-	for _f in src/snakeoil/*.pyx; do
-		rm -f ${_f%.pyx}.c
-	done
-}
-
-pre_check() {
-	export PYTHONPATH=$(cd build/lib* && pwd)
-}
+checksum=fe502181818ff20c3fa6c7101f287fa323650b11d7265ac3fbcb6c53bd1feaaf
+make_check_pre="env PYTHONPATH=src"
 
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
-
-python3-snakeoil-devel_package() {
-	depends="python3-snakeoil>=${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include/python3*
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
index 6c1bbab871e..926eca1effb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ replaces="
  python3-pyside-phonon<=5.15.0_2
  python3-pyside<=5.15.0_2
  python3-shiboken<=5.15.0_3
+ python3-snakeoil-devel<=0.8.8_4
  python3-txacme<=0.9.3_3
  qimageblitz<=0.0.6_4
  qt-designer-devel<=4.8.7_29