diff --git a/srcpkgs/afew/patches/afew-python-3.8.patch b/srcpkgs/afew/patches/afew-python-3.8.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6275d8f9d07..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/afew/patches/afew-python-3.8.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- afew/filters/__init__.py
-+++ afew/filters/__init__.py
-@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
- 
- __all__ = list(filename[:-3]
-                for filename in glob.glob1(os.path.dirname(__file__), '*.py')
--               if filename is not '__init__.py')
-+               if filename != '__init__.py')
diff --git a/srcpkgs/afew/template b/srcpkgs/afew/template
index 9861d25fd5e..2b2614a4eba 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/afew/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/afew/template
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 # Template file for 'afew'
 pkgname=afew
-version=2.0.0
-revision=4
+version=3.0.0
+revision=1
 archs=noarch
 build_style=python3-module
-pycompile_module="afew"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools python3-Sphinx pkg-config"
-depends="notmuch-python3 python3-dkimpy python3-chardet"
-checkdepends="python3-pytest $depends"
+depends="notmuch-python3 python3-dkimpy python3-chardet notmuch"
+checkdepends="python3-pytest python3-freezegun $depends"
 short_desc="Initial tagging script for notmuch mail"
 maintainer="Alexander Gehrke <void@qwertyuiop.de>"
 license="ISC"
 homepage="https://github.com/afewmail/afew"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/a/afew/afew-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=1a685b97ddeba66d4af5ee9b2b76b1a8bccccd3d10bc285c8b82886a0328c048
+checksum=ec60b8587ffb286da8c5831e5da0378b8df3642a5164e667665453c8beef43a2
+
+post_patch() {
+	# version is pre-generated
+	vsed -i -e "s/'setuptools_scm'//" setup.py
+}
 
 post_build() {
 	python3 setup.py build_sphinx -b man