diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_auth/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_auth/default.nix
index 315d4756e0db..01797673fbaa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_auth/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_auth/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchpatch, fetchPypi
-, pytest, mock, oauth2client, flask, requests, urllib3, pytest-localserver, six, pyasn1-modules, cachetools, rsa }:
+, pytest, mock, oauth2client, flask, requests, setuptools, urllib3, pytest-localserver, six, pyasn1-modules, cachetools, rsa }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "google-auth";
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   checkInputs = [ pytest mock oauth2client flask requests urllib3 pytest-localserver ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six pyasn1-modules cachetools rsa ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six pyasn1-modules cachetools rsa setuptools ];
 
   # The removed test tests the working together of google_auth and google's https://pypi.python.org/pypi/oauth2client
   # but the latter is deprecated. Since it is not currently part of the nixpkgs collection and deprecated it will