diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/proboscis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/proboscis/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f2373e4702f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/proboscis/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, nose }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "proboscis";
+  version = "1.2.6.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "b822b243a7c82030fce0de97bdc432345941306d2c24ef227ca561dd019cd238";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ nose ];
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A Python test framework that extends Python's built-in unittest module and Nose with features from TestNG";
+    homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/proboscis;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index aa7417663159..9c80f91421a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1623,23 +1623,7 @@ in {
 
   rarfile = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rarfile { inherit (pkgs) libarchive; };
 
-  proboscis = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "proboscis-1.2.6.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/proboscis/proboscis-1.2.6.0.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "b822b243a7c82030fce0de97bdc432345941306d2c24ef227ca561dd019cd238";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ nose ];
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python test framework that extends Python's built-in unittest module and Nose with features from TestNG";
-      homepage = https://github.com/rackspace/python-proboscis;
-      license = licenses.asl20;
-    };
-  };
+  proboscis = callPackage ../development/python-modules/proboscis {};
 
   pyechonest = self.buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyechonest-8.0.2";