diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..318c47d2160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, nose }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "0.5.3-2016-09-28";
+  name = "tempita-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "gjhiggins";
+    repo = "tempita";
+    rev = "47414a7c6e46a9a9afe78f0bce2ea299fa84d10";
+    sha256 = "0f33jjjs5rvp7ar2j6ggyfykcrsrn04jaqcq71qfvycf6b7nw3rn";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/gjhiggins/tempita;
+    description = "A very small text templating language";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0df3f855c3a..28ba36f1ccb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13310,24 +13310,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  tempita = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.5.2";
-    name = "tempita-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/T/Tempita/Tempita-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "cacecf0baa674d356641f1d406b8bff1d756d739c46b869a54de515d08e6fc9c";
-    };
-
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ nose ];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/;
-      description = "A very small text templating language";
-    };
-  };
+  tempita = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tempita { };
 
   terminado = callPackage ../development/python-modules/terminado { };