diff --git a/textproc/py-pygfm/Makefile b/textproc/py-pygfm/Makefile
index ec41d39d795..9f3a249e8fc 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pygfm/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-pygfm/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
-COMMENT =		GitHub Flavored Markdown extension
+COMMENT=	deprecated GitHub Flavored Markdown extension
 
-MODPY_DISTV =	1.0.2
-DISTNAME =		py-gfm-${MODPY_DISTV}
-PKGNAME =		py-${DISTNAME:S/py-/py/}
-REVISION =		4
+MODPY_DISTV=	2.0.0
+GH_ACCOUNT=	zopieux
+GH_PROJECT=	py-gfm
+GH_TAGNAME=	${MODPY_DISTV}
 
-CATEGORIES =		textproc
+PKGNAME=	py-pygfm-${MODPY_DISTV}
 
-HOMEPAGE =		https://github.com/zopieux/py-gfm
+CATEGORIES=	textproc
+
+HOMEPAGE=	https://github.com/zopieux/py-gfm
 
 # MIT
-PERMIT_PACKAGE =	Yes
+PERMIT_PACKAGE=	Yes
 
-MODULES =		lang/python
-
-MODPY_PI =		Yes
-MODPY_PYBUILD =		setuptools
+MODULES=	lang/python
+MODPY_PYBUILD=	setuptools
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-pygfm/distinfo b/textproc/py-pygfm/distinfo
index 9975dec695a..01151c6bf06 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pygfm/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-pygfm/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (py-gfm-1.0.2.tar.gz) = 7zo+blSBfCHpfMFshXibBoHmKViCOguj49KfhQnZ3Ek=
-SIZE (py-gfm-1.0.2.tar.gz) = 15134
+SHA256 (py-gfm-2.0.0.tar.gz) = PdUl2mqIr1483b34HgJ3I7JLXwXM7P8Y58U0GsVCIbo=
+SIZE (py-gfm-2.0.0.tar.gz) = 21898
diff --git a/textproc/py-pygfm/patches/patch-setup_cfg b/textproc/py-pygfm/patches/patch-setup_cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..911a89b4774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py-pygfm/patches/patch-setup_cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Index: setup.cfg
+--- setup.cfg.orig
++++ setup.cfg
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ [metadata]
+-description-file = README.rst
++description_file = README.rst
+ 
+ [bdist_wheel]
+ universal = 1
diff --git a/textproc/py-pygfm/pkg/DESCR b/textproc/py-pygfm/pkg/DESCR
index c87dc2104f3..1915f9281c9 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pygfm/pkg/DESCR
+++ b/textproc/py-pygfm/pkg/DESCR
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 This is an implementation of GitHub-Flavored Markdown written as an
-extension to the Python Markdown library. It aims for maximal
-compatibility with GitHub's rendering.
+extension to the Python Markdown library.
+
+This library has well-known consistency issues with rendering and will
+not receive bug fixes. Consider instead using pycmarkgfm, a lightweight
+Python wrapper for GitHub's own implementation of GFM instead.