diff --git a/lang/python/borgbackup/Makefile b/lang/python/borgbackup/Makefile
index a8629deef..95fd7eaff 100644
--- a/lang/python/borgbackup/Makefile
+++ b/lang/python/borgbackup/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=borgbackup
 PKG_VERSION:=1.2.4
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_RELEASE:=3
 
 PYPI_NAME:=borgbackup
 PKG_HASH:=a4bd54e9469e81b7a30a6711423115abc818d9cd844ecb1ca0e6104bc5374da8
@@ -57,16 +57,7 @@ define Package/borgbackup/description
   The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
 endef
 
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=python-cython/host
-
-# borg setup.py shall find these via pkg-config, but depends on python pkgconfig PyPi module
-# which quickly becomes a nightmare to build, since it build-depends on poetry which is not
-# available in the python package feed, and has a myriad of deps
-PYTHON3_PKG_SETUP_VARS:= \
-  BORG_OPENSSL_PREFIX="/usr/lib" \
-  BORG_LIBLZ4_PREFIX="/usr/lib" \
-  BORG_LIBZSTD_PREFIX="/usr/lib" \
-  BORG_LIBXXHASH_PREFIX="/usr/lib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=python-cython/host python-pkgconfig/host python-setuptools-scm/host
 
 $(eval $(call Py3Package,borgbackup))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,borgbackup))