diff --git a/testing/py3-daemon/APKBUILD b/testing/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
index f8eceba629e36f20e0b7db0704d8550419c8dd52..aa02a2b1e2002e1d333408ef866fd6ac3daf1b66 100644
--- a/testing/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/py3-daemon/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,19 @@ options="!check" # Has lots of dependencies
 arch="noarch"
 license="Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later"
 depends="py3-setuptools py3-lockfile"
-makedepends="py3-twine py3-docutils"
+makedepends="py3-docutils"
 source="https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/python-daemon/python-daemon-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/python-daemon-$pkgver"
 
+prepare() {
+	default_prepare
+
+	# Remove unnecessary dependency for building, twine is
+	# required for uploading the package to pypi which we don't
+	# do
+	sed -e '/twine/d' -i setup.py
+}
+
 build() {
 	python3 setup.py build
 }