diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index b90534e2864..548840a0add 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -4015,6 +4015,12 @@
     githubId = 61913481;
     name = "Mat Marini";
   };
+  illustris = {
+    email = "me@illustris.tech";
+    github = "illustris";
+    githubId = 3948275;
+    name = "Harikrishnan R";
+  };
   ilya-fedin = {
     email = "fedin-ilja2010@ya.ru";
     github = "ilya-fedin";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmigemo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmigemo/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..907e144c86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmigemo/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, six, cmigemo, pytestCheckHook }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "cmigemo";
+  version = "0.1.6";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "09j68kvcskav2cqb7pj12caksmj4wh2lhjp0csq00xpn0wqal4vk";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export LDFLAGS="-L${cmigemo}/lib"
+    export CPPFLAGS="-I${cmigemo}/include"
+    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${cmigemo}/lib"
+  '';
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i 's~dict_path_base = "/usr/share/cmigemo"~dict_path_base = "/${cmigemo}/share/migemo"~g' test/test_cmigemo.py
+  '';
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+
+  pytestFlagsArray = [ "test/" ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "cmigemo" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mooz/python-cmigemo";
+    description = "A pure python binding for C/Migemo";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ illustris ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/percol/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/percol/default.nix
index eddf58e559d..58e7aff5601 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/percol/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/percol/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,26 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k
-, six
-}:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, cmigemo }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "percol";
-  version = "0.2.1";
-  disabled = isPy3k;
+  version = "unstable-2019-07-24";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "7a649c6fae61635519d12a6bcacc742241aad1bff3230baef2cedd693ed9cfe8";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mooz";
+    repo = "percol";
+    rev = "4b28037e328da3d0fe8165c11b800cbaddcb525e";
+    sha256 = "07sq3517wzn04j2dzlmczmcvx3w6r7xnzz3634zgf1zi6dbr2a3g";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ cmigemo ];
+
+  # package has no tests
+  doCheck = false;
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "percol" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/mooz/percol";
     description = "Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of shell";
     license = licenses.mit;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ koral ];
-    broken = true; # missing cmigemo package which is missing libmigemo.so
-    # also doesn't support python3
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2b35c242edb..861b8e08613 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1420,6 +1420,10 @@ in {
 
   cmdtest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cmdtest { };
 
+  cmigemo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cmigemo {
+    inherit (pkgs) cmigemo;
+  };
+
   cmsis-svd = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cmsis-svd { };
 
   cntk = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cntk { };