diff --git a/lang/python/python-incremental/Makefile b/lang/python/python-incremental/Makefile
index 0cfbe6b296..0ca917b524 100644
--- a/lang/python/python-incremental/Makefile
+++ b/lang/python/python-incremental/Makefile
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=python-incremental
-PKG_VERSION:=22.10.0
+PKG_VERSION:=24.7.2
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PYPI_NAME:=incremental
-PKG_HASH:=912feeb5e0f7e0188e6f42241d2f450002e11bbc0937c65865045854c24c0bd0
+PKG_HASH:=fb4f1d47ee60efe87d4f6f0ebb5f70b9760db2b2574c59c8e8912be4ebd464c9
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ define Package/python3-incremental/description
 Incremental is a small library that versions your Python projects.
 endef
 
+define Py3Package/python3-incremental/filespec
++|$(PYTHON3_PKG_DIR)
+-|$(PYTHON3_PKG_DIR)/incremental/tests
+endef
+
 $(eval $(call Py3Package,python3-incremental))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-incremental))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-incremental-src))
diff --git a/lang/python/python-incremental/patches/001-omit-tests.patch b/lang/python/python-incremental/patches/001-omit-tests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b71c6e35f7..0000000000
--- a/lang/python/python-incremental/patches/001-omit-tests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- a/setup.cfg
-+++ b/setup.cfg
-@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ zip_safe = False
- 
- [options.packages.find]
- where = src
--exclude = exampleproj
-+exclude = 
-+	exampleproj
-+	*.tests
-+	*.tests.*
- 
- [options.package_data]
- incremental = py.typed