diff --git a/srcpkgs/udiskie/patches/setuptools.patch b/srcpkgs/udiskie/patches/setuptools.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..29d9f443e02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/udiskie/patches/setuptools.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+udiskie tries to monkey-patch entry-point generation to improve performance,
+but it relies on context that is not available in setuptools 75.
+
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+ from setuptools import setup, Command
+-from setuptools.command.easy_install import ScriptWriter
+ from setuptools.command.install import install as orig_install
+ from distutils.command.build import build as orig_build
+ 
+@@ -68,33 +67,6 @@
+     pass
+ 
+ 
+-def fast_entrypoint_script_template():
+-    """
+-    Replacement for ``easy_install.ScriptWriter.template`` to generate faster
+-    entry points that don't depend on and import pkg_resources.
+-
+-    NOTE: `pip install` already does the right thing (at least for pip 19.0)
+-    without our help, but this is still needed for setuptools install, i.e.
+-    ``python setup.py install`` or develop.
+-    """
+-    SCRIPT_TEMPLATE = dedent(r'''
+-        # encoding: utf-8
+-        import sys
+-        from {ep.module_name} import {ep.attrs[0]}
+-
+-        if __name__ == '__main__':
+-            sys.exit({func}())
+-    ''').lstrip()
+-
+-    class ScriptTemplate(str):
+-        def __mod__(self, context):
+-            func = '.'.join(context['ep'].attrs)
+-            return self.format(func=func, **context)
+-
+-    return ScriptTemplate(SCRIPT_TEMPLATE)
+-
+-
+-ScriptWriter.template = fast_entrypoint_script_template()
+ setup(
+     cmdclass={
+         'install': install,
diff --git a/srcpkgs/udiskie/template b/srcpkgs/udiskie/template
index 0814514e526..04ad1102281 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/udiskie/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/udiskie/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'udiskie'
 pkgname=udiskie
-version=2.5.2
+version=2.5.3
 revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
 hostmakedepends="gettext asciidoc python3-setuptools"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coldfix/udiskie/master/CHANGES.rst"
 distfiles="https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=fb81930ac046e90c8a03135c5ca93454653c23f57ef5659f6eaed87a9098754d
+checksum=6971adaa00dcd6b799b8a0b62c47103e0ad9a3f1880112c51ccc662316d2b306
 make_check=ci-skip # privilege issue with keyring in container
 
 post_build() {