diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_compressor/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_compressor/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d8626ec576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_compressor/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi,
+  rcssmin, rjsmin, django_appconf }:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "django_compressor";
+    version = "2.1.1";
+    name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "1s42dkq3qp1niaf69markd7m3ljgf2bspyz2nk0sa07f8q04004j";
+    };
+
+    # Need to setup django testing
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ rcssmin rjsmin django_appconf ];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files";
+      homepage = http://django-compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/;
+      license = licenses.mit;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
+    };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 42cd541f7c1..e5cc154ee9d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -9889,27 +9889,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  django_compressor = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "django-compressor-${version}";
-    version = "1.5";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/d/django_compressor/django_compressor-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0bp2acagc6b1mmcajlmjf5vvp6zj429bq7p2wks05n47pwfzv281";
-    };
-
-    # Need to setup django testing
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ django_appconf ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files";
-      homepage = http://django-compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
-    };
-  };
+  django_compressor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django_compressor { };
 
   django_compat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-compat { };