diff --git a/srcpkgs/pylint/patches/cwd.patch b/srcpkgs/pylint/patches/cwd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..41123bd60b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pylint/patches/cwd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- a/tests/primer/test_primer_stdlib.py
++++ b/tests/primer/test_primer_stdlib.py
+@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
+ from pytest import CaptureFixture
+ 
+ from pylint.testutils._run import _Run as Run
++from pylint.testutils.utils import _test_cwd
+ 
+ 
+ def is_module(filename: str) -> bool:
+@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@
+ ) -> None:
+     """Test that pylint does not produce any crashes or fatal errors on stdlib modules."""
+     __tracebackhide__ = True  # pylint: disable=unused-variable
+-    os.chdir(test_module_location)
+-    with _patch_stdout(io.StringIO()):
++    with _test_cwd(test_module_location):
++      with _patch_stdout(io.StringIO()):
+         try:
+             # We want to test all the code we can
+             enables = ["--enable-all-extensions", "--enable=all"]
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pylint/template b/srcpkgs/pylint/template
index cc14fb74e8c..b693619f6d5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pylint/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pylint/template
@@ -1,28 +1,21 @@
 # Template file for 'pylint'
 pkgname=pylint
-version=3.3.4
+version=3.3.7
 revision=1
 build_style=python3-pep517
-make_build_args="--skip-dependency-check"
-make_check_args="--deselect=tests/benchmark/test_baseline_benchmarks.py"
-hostmakedepends="python3-wheel"
+make_check_args="--primer-stdlib"
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 depends="python3-astroid python3-isort python3-mccabe python3-tomlkit
  python3-platformdirs python3-dill"
-checkdepends="$depends python3-pytest python3-tkinter python3-six
- python3-GitPython git"
+checkdepends="$depends python3-pytest python3-pytest-benchmark
+ python3-coverage python3-GitPython python3-typing_extensions
+ python3-requests python3-enchant hunspell-en"
 short_desc="Python code static checker"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://pylint.pycqa.org"
 distfiles="https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/archive/refs/tags/v$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=bdb1f2218222df18d1b1336686d81f5e0a03de28acaa3092fae9fbe660ca76db
-
-do_check() {
-	# FIXME: run upstream test suite
-	# for now, let's just try to verify that pylint can run and dependencies
-	# are correct
-	PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m pylint --version
-}
+checksum=a10501d89b9257720844481b21a16137f7880af793971bdf871f78712f75b5ee
 
 post_install() {
 	# install example config and emacs files