diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-distlib/template b/srcpkgs/python3-distlib/template
index e00eefd1b8e..5f5296f4f3f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-distlib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-distlib/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-distlib'
 pkgname=python3-distlib
-version=0.3.6
-revision=3
+version=0.3.9
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-pep517
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools python3-wheel"
 depends="python3"
@@ -12,12 +12,18 @@ license="Python-2.0"
 homepage="https://distlib.readthedocs.io/"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/distlib/master/CHANGES.rst"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/d/distlib/distlib-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=14bad2d9b04d3a36127ac97f30b12a19268f211063d8f8ee4f47108896e11b46
+checksum=a60f20dea646b8a33f3e7772f74dc0b2d0772d2837ee1342a00645c81edf9403
+
+# see: https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/161#issuecomment-1119511558
+make_check_pre="env PYTHONHASHSEED=0"
+# this uses https://docs.python.org/3/library/test.html (not installed)
+# see https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/214#issuecomment-1945563204
+make_check_args="
+ --deselect tests/test_scripts.py::ScriptTestCase::test_script_run"
 
 pre_check() {
+	# this is testing `is_writable('/etc')`, which for us is `True`
 	vsed -i -e "/self.assertFalse(self.fileop.is_writable/s/False/True/" tests/test_util.py
-	vsed -i -e '/def test_sequencer_basic/s/test//' tests/test_util.py
-	vsed -i -e '/def test_dependency_finder/s/test//' tests/test_locators.py
 }
 
 post_install() {