diff --git a/packages/borgbackup/build.sh b/packages/borgbackup/build.sh
index 29354880f..7e7b39c64 100644
--- a/packages/borgbackup/build.sh
+++ b/packages/borgbackup/build.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Deduplicating and compressing backup program"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD 3-Clause"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.1.17
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/download/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/borgbackup-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7ab924fc017b24929bedceba0dcce16d56f9868bf9b5050d2aae2eb080671674
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libacl, liblz4, openssl, python, zstd"
diff --git a/packages/borgbackup/use-distutils.patch b/packages/borgbackup/use-distutils.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..06560c689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/borgbackup/use-distutils.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+Do not remove this patch unless you know what you are doing!
+
+We don't have module "packaging" packaged and thus cannot use it without
+installing through "pip". But for stable packages we cannot use it in
+postinst script to add missing dependencies.
+
+So if you decide to drop this patch:
+* Add python3-packaging to termux-packages.
+* Alternatively: create a postinst deb script (pip3 install packaging)
+  and move borgbackup to https://github.com/termux/unstable-packages
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 7ad8f814..5a642fff 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
+     multiprocessing = None
+ 
+ from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
+-from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension, Command
++from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension
+ from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist
++from distutils.command.clean import clean
+ 
+ try:
+     from Cython.Build import cythonize
+@@ -137,16 +138,9 @@ def rm(file):
+         pass
+ 
+ 
+-class Clean(Command):
+-    user_options = []
+-
+-    def initialize_options(self):
+-        pass
+-
+-    def finalize_options(self):
+-        pass
+-
++class Clean(clean):
+     def run(self):
++        super().run()
+         for source in cython_sources:
+             genc = source.replace('.pyx', '.c')
+             rm(genc)
+@@ -160,7 +154,7 @@ def run(self):
+     'build_usage': setup_docs.build_usage,
+     'build_man': setup_docs.build_man,
+     'sdist': Sdist,
+-    'clean2': Clean,
++    'clean': Clean,
+ }
+ 
+ ext_modules = []
+@@ -227,8 +221,8 @@ def members_appended(*ds):
+ 
+     # sometimes there's no need to cythonize
+     # this breaks chained commands like 'clean sdist'
+-    cythonizing = len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] not in (
+-        ('clean', 'clean2', 'egg_info', '--help-commands', '--version')) and '--help' not in sys.argv[1:]
++    cythonizing = len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] not in ('clean', 'egg_info', '--help-commands', '--version') \
++                  and '--help' not in sys.argv[1:]
+ 
+     if cythonize and cythonizing:
+         cython_opts = dict(