diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/vdirsyncer/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/vdirsyncer/default.nix
index d6789bf52bc5..a411f8a2fc25 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/vdirsyncer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/vdirsyncer/default.nix
@@ -1,29 +1,32 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages, glibcLocales }:
 
+# Packaging documentation at:
+# https://github.com/untitaker/vdirsyncer/blob/master/docs/packaging.rst
 pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  version = "0.9.0";
+  version = "0.9.2";
   name = "vdirsyncer-${version}";
   namePrefix = "";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/vdirsyncer/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0s9awjr9v60rr80xcpwmdhkf4v1yqnydahjmxwvxmh64565is465";
+    sha256 = "1g1107cz4sk41d2z6k6pn9n2fzd26m72j8aj33zn483vfvmyrc4q";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [
     click click-log click-threading
     lxml
-    setuptools
-    setuptools_scm
     requests_toolbelt
     requests2
     atomicwrites
   ];
 
-  # Unfortunately, checking this package seems a bit too complex
-  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/13098#issuecomment-185914025
-  # https://github.com/untitaker/vdirsyncer/issues/334#issuecomment-185872854
-  doCheck = false;
+  buildInputs = with pythonPackages; [hypothesis pytest pytest-localserver pytest-subtesthack setuptools_scm ] ++ [ glibcLocales ];
+
+  LC_ALL = "en_US.utf8";
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    make DETERMINISTIC_TESTS=true test
+  '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://github.com/untitaker/vdirsyncer;