diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
index be4a517f2b..d9e7ee8923 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="i2c-tools"
-PKG_VERSION="4.3"
-PKG_SHA256="1f899e43603184fac32f34d72498fc737952dbc9c97a8dd9467fadfdf4600cf9"
+PKG_VERSION="4.4"
+PKG_SHA256="8b15f0a880ab87280c40cfd7235cfff28134bf14d5646c07518b1ff6642a2473"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://i2c.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/I2C_Tools"
 PKG_URL="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/i2c-tools/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/patches/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/patches/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 63b2a7f82f..0000000000
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/patches/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From cf3541b8a7ed50782edd05836020d31230fb86c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:08:53 +0100
-Subject: py-smbus: Use setuptools instead of distutils
-
-As per [1], distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be removed
-entirely in Python 3.12.
-
-As setuptools is essentially an enhanced version of distutils, it's
-trivial to port to that.
-
-[1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated
-
-Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
-
-Upstream: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/commit/?id=cf3541b8a7ed50782edd05836020d31230fb86c6
-
-Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
----
- py-smbus/setup.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/py-smbus/setup.py b/py-smbus/setup.py
-index 28a4500..26db33a 100644
---- a/py-smbus/setup.py
-+++ b/py-smbus/setup.py
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env python
- 
--from distutils.core import setup, Extension
-+from setuptools import setup, Extension
- 
- setup(	name="smbus",
- 	version="1.1",
--- 
-cgit 
-