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
   };
 }