diff --git a/testing/py3-helper/APKBUILD b/testing/py3-helper/APKBUILD
index 754e77723e8..07875751bb1 100644
--- a/testing/py3-helper/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/py3-helper/APKBUILD
@@ -3,25 +3,30 @@
 pkgname=py3-helper
 _pkgname=helper
 pkgver=2.5.0
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="A Python library for quickly writing configurable applications and daemons"
 url="https://helper.readthedocs.org/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
-replaces="py-helper" # for backwards compatibility
-provides="py-helper=$pkgver-r$pkgrel" # for backwards compatibility
 depends="python3 py3-yaml"
-makedepends="python3-dev py3-setuptools"
+makedepends="python3-dev py3-setuptools py3-gpep517"
 subpackages="$pkgname-pyc"
 source="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${_pkgname:0:1}/$_pkgname/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir"/$_pkgname-$pkgver
+options="!check" # no tests provided
+
+replaces="py-helper" # for backwards compatibility
+provides="py-helper=$pkgver-r$pkgrel" # for backwards compatibility
 
 build() {
-	python3 setup.py build
+	gpep517 build-wheel \
+		--wheel-dir .dist \
+		--output-fd 3 3>&1 >&2
 }
 
 package() {
-	python3 setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir"
+	gpep517 install-wheel --destdir "$pkgdir" \
+		.dist/*.whl
 }
 
 sha512sums="