diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/pyditz/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/pyditz/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fda9dee0949..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/pyditz/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, pythonPackages, fetchPypi }:
-
-with pythonPackages;
-
-buildPythonApplication rec {
-  pname = "pyditz";
-  version = "0.11";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-2gNlrpBk4wxKJ1JvsNeoAv2lyGUc2mmQ0Xvn7eiaJVE=";
-  };
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools-scm ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyyaml six jinja2 cerberus ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ unittestCheckHook ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/pyditz/";
-    description = "Drop-in replacement for the Ditz distributed issue tracker";
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.ilikeavocadoes ];
-    license = licenses.lgpl2;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/py/pyditz/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/py/pyditz/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4e8da8bb296b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/py/pyditz/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  python3Packages,
+  fetchPypi,
+}:
+
+python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+  pname = "pyditz";
+  version = "0.11";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-2gNlrpBk4wxKJ1JvsNeoAv2lyGUc2mmQ0Xvn7eiaJVE=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = with python3Packages; [ setuptools-scm ];
+
+  dependencies = with python3Packages; [
+    pyyaml
+    six
+    jinja2
+    cerberus
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://hg.sr.ht/~zondo/pyditz";
+    description = "Drop-in replacement for the Ditz distributed issue tracker";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ilikeavocadoes ];
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 370c16467fc2..5847a66edf93 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11426,10 +11426,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ticktick = callPackage ../applications/office/ticktick { };
 
-  pyditz = callPackage ../applications/misc/pyditz {
-    pythonPackages = python3Packages;
-  };
-
   py-spy = darwin.apple_sdk_11_0.callPackage ../development/tools/py-spy {
     # https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/633
     python3 = python311;