diff --git a/x11-fonts/py-afdko/Makefile b/x11-fonts/py-afdko/Makefile
index 2051546baa4f..0252412416af 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/py-afdko/Makefile
+++ b/x11-fonts/py-afdko/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	afdko
-PORTVERSION=	3.9.6
+PORTVERSION=	3.9.7
 CATEGORIES=	x11-fonts python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -10,24 +10,21 @@ WWW=		https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
-# print/py-fonttools[woff]: archivers/py-brotli and archivers/py-zopfli
-# x11-fonts/py-defcon[pens]: print/py-fontpens
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	afdko>=${PORTVERSION}<${PORTVERSION}_99:x11-fonts/afdko \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}booleanOperations>=0.9.0:x11-fonts/py-booleanOperations@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}brotli>=1.0.1:archivers/py-brotli@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}defcon>=0.10.2:x11-fonts/py-defcon@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fontMath>=0.9.3:x11-fonts/py-fontMath@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fontpens>=0.1.0:print/py-fontpens@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fonttools>=4.38.0:print/py-fonttools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml>=4.9.2:devel/py-lxml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fonttools>=4.42.0:print/py-fonttools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml>=4.9.3:devel/py-lxml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}psautohint>=2.4.0:print/py-psautohint@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.64.1:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.66.1:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ufonormalizer>=0.6.1:x11-fonts/py-ufonormalizer@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ufoprocessor>=1.9.0:x11-fonts/py-ufoprocessor@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}zopfli>=0.1.4:archivers/py-zopfli@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ufoprocessor>=1.9.0:x11-fonts/py-ufoprocessor@${PY_FLAVOR}
+# x11-fonts/py-defcon[pens]: print/py-fontpens
+RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fontpens>=0.1.0:print/py-fontpens@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
diff --git a/x11-fonts/py-afdko/distinfo b/x11-fonts/py-afdko/distinfo
index a45c036e51a8..1fb450246d9e 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/py-afdko/distinfo
+++ b/x11-fonts/py-afdko/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1688166112
-SHA256 (afdko-3.9.6.tar.gz) = 4c1404012b271d948c1094f18f98cb77c481be1a1a37f486134f695a74b08682
-SIZE (afdko-3.9.6.tar.gz) = 16278544
+TIMESTAMP = 1692211663
+SHA256 (afdko-3.9.7.tar.gz) = 8954069339998db4abbf4adf83ea7909c8833c80f4d76dc5cfa8b7191d652b5b
+SIZE (afdko-3.9.7.tar.gz) = 16278655