diff --git a/srcpkgs/pylint/template b/srcpkgs/pylint/template
index a28415cd17c..4eb6c572756 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pylint/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pylint/template
@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
 # Template file for 'pylint'
 pkgname=pylint
-version=2.11.1
-revision=2
+version=2.12.2
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
 make_check_args="--deselect=tests/benchmark/test_baseline_benchmarks.py"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 depends="python3-astroid python3-isort python3-mccabe python3-toml
- python3-platformdirs python3-typing_extensions"
-checkdepends="$depends python3-pytest python3-tkinter python3-six"
+ python3-platformdirs"
+checkdepends="$depends python3-pytest python3-tkinter python3-six
+ python3-GitPython git"
 short_desc="Python code static checker"
 maintainer="Michal Vasilek <michal@vasilek.cz>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://www.pylint.org/"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PyCQA/pylint/master/ChangeLog"
 distfiles="https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/archive/refs/tags/v$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=b797b4906068c616db2aaf364e56506d42b130474e98a16a0e2b9eb72fa0b1b7
+checksum=411308682f3d4578bb769e7fa549c8f34edf1033871d2e8cd5c3ce16a5741c59
 
 post_install() {
 	# install example config and emacs files