diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise-api/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise-api/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3bd223127a7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise-api/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, substituteAll
+, supervise
+, setuptools
+, pytestCheckHook
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "supervise-api";
+  version = "0.6.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    pname = "supervise_api";
+    inherit version;
+    hash = "sha256-EjD0IpSRDoNCG307CKlo0n1RCkpwnpZlB+1w212hud4=";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace supervise_api/supervise.py \
+      --replace 'which("supervise")' '"${supervise}/bin/supervise"'
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "supervise_api"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "An API for running processes safely and securely";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/catern/supervise";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ catern ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d4c7f4e3f8b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, substituteAll
-, supervise
-, isPy3k
-, whichcraft
-, util-linux
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "supervise_api";
-  version = "0.6.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "1230f42294910e83421b7d3b08a968d27d510a4a709e966507ed70db5da1b9de";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    (substituteAll {
-      src = ./supervise-path.patch;
-      inherit supervise;
-    })
-  ];
-
-  # In the git repo, supervise_api lives inside a python subdir
-  patchFlags = [ "-p2" ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional (!isPy3k) whichcraft;
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ util-linux ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "An API for running processes safely and securely";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/catern/supervise";
-    license = lib.licenses.lgpl3;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ catern ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/supervise-path.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/supervise-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c5538ddc26e2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/supervise_api/supervise-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/python/supervise_api/supervise.py b/python/supervise_api/supervise.py
-index 497d3ea..be57e35 100644
---- a/python/supervise_api/supervise.py
-+++ b/python/supervise_api/supervise.py
-@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@ try:
- except:
-     from whichcraft import which
- 
--supervise_utility_location = which("supervise")
--if not supervise_utility_location:
--    raise FileNotFoundError(errno.ENOENT, "Executable not found in PATH", "supervise")
-+supervise_utility_location = '@supervise@/bin/supervise'
- 
- 
- def ignore_sigchld():
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 7ef7f6ffbc8e..3672a9439be6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   SQLAlchemy-ImageAttach = throw "sqlalchemy-imageattach has been removed as it is incompatible with sqlalchemy 1.4 and unmaintained"; # added 2022-04-23
   subdownloader = throw "subdownloader has been removed, because it depended on pyqt4"; # added 2022-06-09
   suds-jurko = throw "suds-jurko has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feature, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2023-02-27
+  supervise_api = supervise-api; # added 2023-10-11
   suseapi = throw "suseapi has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2023-02-27
   tensorflow-bin_2 = tensorflow-bin; # added 2021-11-25
   tensorflow-build_2 = tensorflow-build; # added 2021-11-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index a19ab106cbf6..b69f5ec2fd41 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13439,7 +13439,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   sunweg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sunweg { };
 
-  supervise_api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/supervise_api { };
+  supervise-api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/supervise-api { };
 
   supervisor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/supervisor { };