diff --git a/package/python-automat/0001-Remove-uneeded-dependency-to-wheel.patch b/package/python-automat/0001-Remove-uneeded-dependency-to-wheel.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2be7ec6cda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-automat/0001-Remove-uneeded-dependency-to-wheel.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From d04d51d62a23370869ad466fa95b7d4ec2e0fa6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
+Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:30:33 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove uneeded dependency to "wheel"
+
+Attempting to build Automat in Buildroot fails while trying
+to check for this undeeded dependency.
+
+Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
+---
+ setup.py | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index c2f9816..afa8012 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ setup(
+     packages=find_packages(exclude=[]),
+     package_dir={'automat': 'automat'},
+     setup_requires=[
+-        'wheel',
+         'setuptools-scm',
+     ],
+     install_requires=[
+-- 
+2.38.1
+
diff --git a/package/python-automat/python-automat.hash b/package/python-automat/python-automat.hash
index 33a64abedf..cfb16ac664 100644
--- a/package/python-automat/python-automat.hash
+++ b/package/python-automat/python-automat.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/automat/json
-md5  d6cef9886b037b8857bfbc686f3ae30a  Automat-20.2.0.tar.gz
-sha256  7979803c74610e11ef0c0d68a2942b152df52da55336e0c9d58daf1831cbdf33  Automat-20.2.0.tar.gz
+md5  b8064994239aabb172748f984489ce75  Automat-22.10.0.tar.gz
+sha256  e56beb84edad19dcc11d30e8d9b895f75deeb5ef5e96b84a467066b3b84bb04e  Automat-22.10.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  b2201301678d0a937d938543827ca1360712eb34e23de8ee3f3bfffbd4c0e376  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-automat/python-automat.mk b/package/python-automat/python-automat.mk
index b94fd2e1c4..675fbd2260 100644
--- a/package/python-automat/python-automat.mk
+++ b/package/python-automat/python-automat.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_AUTOMAT_VERSION = 20.2.0
+PYTHON_AUTOMAT_VERSION = 22.10.0
 PYTHON_AUTOMAT_SOURCE = Automat-$(PYTHON_AUTOMAT_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_AUTOMAT_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/80/c5/82c63bad570f4ef745cc5c2f0713c8eddcd07153b4bee7f72a8dc9f9384b
+PYTHON_AUTOMAT_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7a/7b/9c3d26d8a0416eefbc0428f168241b32657ca260fb7ef507596ff5c2f6c4
 PYTHON_AUTOMAT_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_AUTOMAT_LICENSE = MIT
 PYTHON_AUTOMAT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE