diff --git a/srcpkgs/nftables/patches/destdir.patch b/srcpkgs/nftables/patches/destdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..852ba96518d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/nftables/patches/destdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Else setuptools installs an .egg directory, this way it installs
+nftables/ and nftables-*-egg.info/
+
+--- a/py/Makefile.am
++++ b/py/Makefile.am
+@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
+ install-exec-local:
+ 	cd $(srcdir) && \
+ 		$(PYTHON_BIN) setup.py build --build-base $(abs_builddir) \
+-		install --prefix $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)
++		install --prefix $(prefix) --root $(DESTDIR)
+ 
+ uninstall-local:
+ 	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib*/python*/site-packages/nftables
diff --git a/srcpkgs/nftables/template b/srcpkgs/nftables/template
index 038e9b9d943..e22441ca30c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/nftables/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/nftables/template
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'nftables'
 pkgname=nftables
-version=1.0.7
+version=1.0.8
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--sbindir=/usr/bin --with-json
  --with-python-bin=/bin/python3 --with-cli=readline"
-hostmakedepends="python3 asciidoc docbook2x flex pkg-config automake libtool"
+hostmakedepends="asciidoc automake docbook2x flex libtool pkg-config
+ python3 python3-setuptools"
 makedepends="gmp-devel jansson-devel libmnl-devel libnftnl-devel readline-devel"
 short_desc="Netfilter nftables userspace tools"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 homepage="http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/"
 distfiles="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/${pkgname}/files/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=c12ac941fff9adaedf17367d5ce213789b98a0d314277bc22b3d71e10891f412
+checksum=9373740de41a82dbc98818e0a46a073faeb8a8d0689fa4fa1a74399c32bf3d50
 
 post_extract() {
 	autoreconf -fi