diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/apipkg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apipkg/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be86eddc2ae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apipkg/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
+, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "apipkg";
+  version = "1.4";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "2e38399dbe842891fe85392601aab8f40a8f4cc5a9053c326de35a1cc0297ac6";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    py.test
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Namespace control and lazy-import mechanism";
+    homepage = "http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/apipkg";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 3fc7871fbe6b..127f5b16f0c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -552,26 +552,7 @@ in {
   ansible_2_2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ansible/2.2.nix {};
   ansible_2_3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ansible/2.3.nix {};
 
-  apipkg = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "apipkg-1.4";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/a/apipkg/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "2e38399dbe842891fe85392601aab8f40a8f4cc5a9053c326de35a1cc0297ac6";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pytest ];
-
-    checkPhase = ''
-      py.test
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Namespace control and lazy-import mechanism";
-      homepage = "http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/apipkg";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  };
+  apipkg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/apipkg {};
 
   appdirs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/appdirs { };