diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
index 0dcb5e87e96f..e7683a259fd3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
   psutil,
   pytestCheckHook,
   pytest-cov,
+  setuptools,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pyexcel-ods";
   version = "0.6.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "pyexcel";
@@ -33,7 +34,9 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  dependencies = [
     pyexcel-io
     odfpy
   ];
@@ -50,6 +53,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Plug-in to pyexcel providing the capbility to read, manipulate and write data in ods formats using odfpy";
     homepage = "http://docs.pyexcel.org/";
     license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ];
+    maintainers = [ ];
   };
 }