Fixed in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-python-debian/python-debian.git/commit/setup.py.in?id=5a622c60232163faa0c0f7fddab405227419b616 The first tagged release to contain this change was v0.1.30. Maintainers, would you please push this version to PyPI? The latest version there is v0.1.28. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-debian