diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/1.6.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/1.6.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ca26da5a373
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/1.6.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, pythonOlder, isPyPy
+, lazy-object-proxy, six, wrapt, enum34, singledispatch, backports_functools_lru_cache
+, pytest
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "astroid";
+  version = "1.6.5";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0fir4b67sm7shcacah9n61pvq313m523jb4q80sycrh3p8nmi6zw";
+  };
+
+  # From astroid/__pkginfo__.py
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    lazy-object-proxy
+    six
+    wrapt
+    enum34
+    singledispatch
+    backports_functools_lru_cache
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    # test_builtin_help is broken
+    pytest -k "not test_builtin_help" astroid
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "An abstract syntax tree for Python with inference support";
+    homepage = https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid;
+    license = licenses.lgpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/default.nix
index ccf6f405526..d773c08e189 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astroid/default.nix
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   checkInputs = [ pytestrunner pytest ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A abstract syntax tree for Python with inference support";
-    homepage = https://bitbucket.org/logilab/astroid;
+    description = "An abstract syntax tree for Python with inference support";
+    homepage = https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid;
     license = licenses.lgpl2;
     platforms = platforms.all;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 28ba36f1ccb..11aa73a04bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -736,7 +736,8 @@ in {
   # argparse is part of stdlib in 2.7 and 3.2+
   argparse = null;
 
-  astroid = callPackage ../development/python-modules/astroid { };
+  astroid = if isPy3k then callPackage ../development/python-modules/astroid { }
+            else callPackage ../development/python-modules/astroid/1.6.nix { };
 
   attrdict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/attrdict { };