diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/android/src/setup.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/android/src/setup.py
index 8bf4512e05..8182ba9c58 100755
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/android/src/setup.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/android/src/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+from setuptools import setup, Extension
 from Cython.Build import cythonize
 import os
 
diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/__init__.py
index 7be2f2e10c..2e737f37b3 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ class FreetypePyRecipe(PythonRecipe):
     version = '2.2.0'
     url = 'https://github.com/rougier/freetype-py/archive/refs/tags/v{version}.tar.gz'
     depends = ['freetype']
-    patches = ['fall-back-to-distutils.patch']
     site_packages_name = 'freetype'
 
 
diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/fall-back-to-distutils.patch b/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/fall-back-to-distutils.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f06f1854a..0000000000
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/freetype-py/fall-back-to-distutils.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -ruN freetype-py.orig/setup.py freetype-py/setup.py
---- freetype-py.orig/setup.py	2020-07-09 20:58:51.000000000 +0700
-+++ freetype-py/setup.py	2022-03-02 19:28:17.948831134 +0700
-@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@
- from io import open
- from os import path
- 
--from setuptools import setup
-+try:
-+    from setuptools import setup
-+except ImportError:
-+    from distutils.core import setup
- 
- if os.environ.get("FREETYPEPY_BUNDLE_FT"):
-     print("# Will build and bundle FreeType.")