diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hpack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hpack/default.nix
index a5140a216cfd..842c6d5f8bfc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hpack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hpack/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,34 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pythonOlder
+, hypothesis
+, pytestCheckHook
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "hpack";
   version = "4.0.0";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "fc41de0c63e687ebffde81187a948221294896f6bdc0ae2312708df339430095";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "python-hyper";
+    repo = "hpack";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-2CehGy3K5fKbkB1J8+8x1D4XvnBn1Mbapx+p8rdXDYc=";
   };
 
+  checkInputs = [
+    hypothesis
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "hpack" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Pure-Python HPACK header compression";
-    homepage = "http://hyper.rtfd.org";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/python-hyper/hpack";
     license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ SuperSandro2000 ];
   };
-
 }