diff --git a/main/py3-sphinx/APKBUILD b/main/py3-sphinx/APKBUILD
index e6853c3e1cd..d2b7aa60123 100644
--- a/main/py3-sphinx/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/py3-sphinx/APKBUILD
@@ -1,24 +1,39 @@
 # Contributor: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 # Maintainer: Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch>
 pkgname=py3-sphinx
-_pkgname=${pkgname#py3-}
-pkgver=2.2.1
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="Python Documentation Generator"
+pkgver=2.4.4
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="Python	Documentation Generator"
+# checkdepends require 'imagemagick' and 'py3-html5lib' which
+# are in community/, 'imagemagick' itself also needs 'librsvg'
+# and 'libheif', which bring in 'rust', 'x265' and others, this
+# is too much of a burden to put on main/
+options="!check"
 url="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="BSD-2-Clause"
-depends="py3-docutils py3-jinja2 py3-pygments py3-six py3-sphinx_rtd_theme
-	py3-alabaster<0.8 py3-babel py3-snowballstemmer py3-imagesize
-	py3-requests py3-sphinxcontrib-websupport py3-setuptools py3-packaging
-	py3-sphinxcontrib-applehelp py3-sphinxcontrib-devhelp
-	py3-sphinxcontrib-jsmath py3-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp
-	py3-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml py3-sphinxcontrib-qthelp
-	py3-attrs make"
-checkdepends="py3-pytest py3-funcsigs py3-pluggy"
-options="!check" # py3-pluggy and some other packages needs to be moved to main first
-source="$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
-builddir="$srcdir/$_pkgname-$pkgver"
+depends="
+	py3-babel
+	py3-docutils
+	py3-imagesize
+	py3-jinja2
+	py3-pygments
+	py3-requests
+	py3-setuptools
+	py3-snowballstemmer
+	py3-alabaster
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-applehelp
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-devhelp
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-jsmath
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
+	py3-sphinxcontrib-qthelp
+	"
+# imagemagick is for tests/test_ext_imgconverter.py::test_ext_imgconverter
+# which calls the 'convert' binary
+checkdepends="py3-pytest py3-funcsigs py3-pluggy imagemagick py3-html5lib"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
+builddir="$srcdir/sphinx-$pkgver"
 
 build() {
 	python3 setup.py build
@@ -43,4 +58,4 @@ package() {
 	done
 }
 
-sha512sums="d3f3f89ddf7d007ac271e6351223852918f028ba0ce39f06f4a75babeb4525cdc65c625162b2d1e732db448f77aeb9cae656eb484a7c9eab7ad6dd563b92fe52  sphinx-2.2.1.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="51f038122d0313c8ad69bbcbb7e67d8485b3d7b312c7dbbcea6db444f21897bf9eeb452192388402341d7e0cd641df136b2e9fc24f482475afc4689ca4d864d1  py3-sphinx-2.4.4.tar.gz"