diff --git a/audio/py-pysndfile/Makefile b/audio/py-pysndfile/Makefile
index a5a82f633fd7..d8269680f16c 100644
--- a/audio/py-pysndfile/Makefile
+++ b/audio/py-pysndfile/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	pysndfile
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.4
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.6
 CATEGORIES=	audio python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Cython wrapper class for reading/writing soundfiles using libsndfile
 WWW=		https://forge-2.ircam.fr/roebel/pysndfile
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL3
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libsndfile.so:audio/libsndfile
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
 
 USES=		python localbase
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist cython
+USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist cython pytest
+
+TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
+TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
+
+# tests fail: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysndfile_inst_dir'; reported to the author via-e-mail on 2024-12-15
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/py-pysndfile/distinfo b/audio/py-pysndfile/distinfo
index 26c74e4bd596..b1fa570989b5 100644
--- a/audio/py-pysndfile/distinfo
+++ b/audio/py-pysndfile/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1650479657
-SHA256 (pysndfile-1.4.4.tar.gz) = 78cef2f1da66a4e6ee6cab5f2337f16549be958847dae00e8e2185ee68b8f8bf
-SIZE (pysndfile-1.4.4.tar.gz) = 380702
+TIMESTAMP = 1734311484
+SHA256 (pysndfile-1.4.6.tar.gz) = 2a5f5057c69e79ddaa4634d39f632ce40acf6a9ce1b84d346124c9b516412060
+SIZE (pysndfile-1.4.6.tar.gz) = 381428