diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pa/patroni/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pa/patroni/package.nix
index 530fa9e3212c..23911d710b74 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pa/patroni/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pa/patroni/package.nix
@@ -1,55 +1,84 @@
 {
-  lib,
-  python3Packages,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  versionCheckHook,
-  nixosTests,
+  lib,
   nix-update-script,
-  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
+  nixosTests,
+  python3Packages,
+  versionCheckHook,
+
+  extras ? [
+    # upstream requires one of: psycopg, psycopg2
+    "psycopg2"
+
+    # distributed configuration stores
+    "consul"
+    "etcd"
+    "etcd3"
+    "exhibitor"
+    "kubernetes"
+    "raft"
+    "zookeeper"
+  ],
 }:
 
 python3Packages.buildPythonApplication (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "patroni";
   version = "4.1.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "zalando";
     repo = "patroni";
     tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-iY5QLbJXfQtfkzpQxvqSOzYQwgfFsBh8HPYujqxU44k=";
+    hash = "sha256-iY5QLbJXfQtfkzpQxvqSOzYQwgfFsBh8HPYujqxU44k=";
   };
 
-  dependencies = with python3Packages; [
-    boto3
-    click
-    consul
-    dnspython
-    kazoo
-    kubernetes
-    prettytable
-    psutil
-    psycopg2
-    pysyncobj
-    python-dateutil
-    python-etcd
-    pyyaml
-    tzlocal
-    urllib3
-    ydiff
+  build-system = with python3Packages; [ setuptools ];
+
+  pythonRelaxDeps = [
+    "ydiff" # requires <1.5
   ];
 
+  dependencies =
+    (with python3Packages; [
+      click
+      consul
+      prettytable
+      psutil
+      python-dateutil
+      pyyaml
+      urllib3
+      ydiff
+    ])
+    ++ lib.attrVals extras finalAttrs.passthru.optional-dependencies;
+
+  optional-dependencies = with python3Packages; {
+    aws = [ boto3 ];
+    consul = [ consul ];
+    etcd = [ python-etcd ];
+    etcd3 = [ python-etcd ];
+    exhibitor = [ kazoo ];
+    jsonlogger = [ python-json-logger ];
+    kubernetes = [ ];
+    psycopg2 = [ psycopg2 ];
+    psycopg2-binary = [ psycopg2-binary ];
+    psycopg3 = [ psycopg ];
+    raft = [
+      cryptography
+      pysyncobj
+    ];
+    systemd = [ systemd-python ];
+    zookeeper = [ kazoo ];
+  };
+
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "patroni" ];
 
-  nativeCheckInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    flake8
-    mock
-    pytestCheckHook
-    pytest-cov-stub
-    requests
-    versionCheckHook
-    writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
-  ];
+  nativeCheckInputs =
+    (with python3Packages; [
+      pytestCheckHook
+      versionCheckHook
+    ])
+    ++ lib.concatAttrValues finalAttrs.passthru.optional-dependencies;
 
   __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
 
@@ -60,14 +89,15 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication (finalAttrs: {
   };
 
   meta = {
-    homepage = "https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/patroni/patroni/blob/${finalAttrs.src.tag}/docs/releases.rst";
     description = "Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, etcd or Consul";
-    changelog = "https://github.com/patroni/patroni/blob/v${finalAttrs.version}/docs/releases.rst";
+    homepage = "https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    mainProgram = "patroni";
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
       de11n
       despsyched
     ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
   };
 })