diff --git a/libpwquality/.signature b/libpwquality/.signature
index 96afd2f68..5f7dd05ec 100644
--- a/libpwquality/.signature
+++ b/libpwquality/.signature
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/contrib.pub
-RWSagIOpLGJF3zbnxtZkB6ruaLGemLyVHOmiQW5Kc9Ryc03ucp98F91Xil/2IqC1ZLTAPIM21NG9LqfA7t3SuDBCjr8dg0hcbwM=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = f8388fb8269384c4f165d6d9477881576a99dda41d39626c27981d1dd5f155cf
+RWSagIOpLGJF39LS4L3c0Ua8P5e3j3VEM5rvghs16U73JRCB15RFEhyTsrhbJ7Jbz5pFfIGNiDBJdeHR97QQ/F8Pa5/ohk9L7AI=
+SHA256 (Pkgfile) = e442b895615300eb887da982923446af1e510f57654a10c5dc6ee1814ba32eed
 SHA256 (.footprint) = 346af73011aebe2631df41edbe6b17ca5508537d340fbc87ac1ad739169f5efd
 SHA256 (libpwquality-1.4.4.tar.bz2) = d43baf23dc6887fe8f8e9b75cabaabc5f4bbbaa0f9eff44278d276141752a545
diff --git a/libpwquality/Pkgfile b/libpwquality/Pkgfile
index 7a1692dea..abc2c998e 100644
--- a/libpwquality/Pkgfile
+++ b/libpwquality/Pkgfile
@@ -5,18 +5,21 @@
 
 name=libpwquality
 version=1.4.4
-release=1
+release=2
 source=(https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality/releases/download/$name-$version/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
 
 build() {
   cd $name-$version
   sed '/mr_IN/d' -i po/LINGUAS
+  autoreconf -fvi
+  export SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib
+
   ./configure --prefix=/usr \
     --sysconfdir=/etc \
     --localstatedir=/var \
     --with-securedir=/lib/security \
+    --with-python-binary=/usr/bin/python3 \
     --enable-pam \
-    --with-python-binary=python3 \
     --disable-nls
   sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool
   make