diff --git a/main/py3-flit-core/APKBUILD b/main/py3-flit-core/APKBUILD
index c1cc6fc2800..f53efdfe07e 100644
--- a/main/py3-flit-core/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/py3-flit-core/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=py3-flit-core
-pkgver=3.9.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=3.11.0
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="simple packaging tool for simple packages (core)"
 url="https://flit.readthedocs.io/"
 arch="noarch"
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ license="BSD-3-Clause"
 makedepends="py3-installer"
 checkdepends="py3-pytest py3-testpath"
 subpackages="$pkgname-pyc"
-source="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/f/flit/flit-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/f/flit/flit-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	vendor-licenses.patch"
 builddir="$srcdir/flit-$pkgver/flit_core"
 options="!check" # py3-testpath depends on this
 
@@ -29,11 +30,9 @@ check() {
 package() {
 	python3 -m installer -d "$pkgdir" \
 		dist/flit_core-$pkgver-py3-none-any.whl
-
-	# remove installed tests
-	rm -r "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python3*/site-packages/flit_core/tests
 }
 
 sha512sums="
-3cbca4530fe463e27fb43130e0d00681e63434bdd552bd61b4a2f3b7967729d9d9a49c69b1a2380ed99bcca1e66a38e592f41cbe38a471d3e7297ab00cdabc29  flit-3.9.0.tar.gz
+704774ab9b8154056a82f59814c2589ad4b3c8593a8e0de75eae99b1517211790604988efaf4f32e5f49fd472ec00efe8269b72524f285a647f4b8126699a4b7  flit-3.11.0.tar.gz
+37f5382e565752e27fe27fb60c73dafe2ecae02a74fd3a48846885542e7209a2ee73c9a522e6cf9e494f7be7f50831b24218f0d4572242d722b74907657797ec  vendor-licenses.patch
 "
diff --git a/main/py3-flit-core/vendor-licenses.patch b/main/py3-flit-core/vendor-licenses.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..166abc453f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/py3-flit-core/vendor-licenses.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Upstream: no
+Reason: we delete the vendor folder but the missing license breaks the build
+  https://github.com/pypa/flit/tree/main/flit_core/flit_core/vendor
+
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies = []
+ requires-python = '>=3.6'
+ readme = "README.rst"
+ license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE*", "flit_core/vendor/**/LICENSE*"]
++license-files = ["LICENSE*"]
+ classifiers = [
+     "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+ ]