diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bccc8d743..bb56a71b0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from configparser import ConfigParser
 
 import setuptools
-from pkg_resources import parse_version
+from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
 
 assert parse_version(setuptools.__version__)>=parse_version('36.2')