diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
index b52b79c62d91..e6c8ab37d68a 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     sha256 = "035w8gqql36zlan0xjrzz9j4lh9hs0qrsgnbyw07qs7lnkvbdv9x";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ tornado_4 pythondaemon ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ tornado_4 python-daemon ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     ...
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/luigi/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/luigi/default.nix
index ced7b9882b9c..35721208a6e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/luigi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/luigi/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     sed -i 's/<2.2.0//' setup.py
   '';
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ tornado_4 pythondaemon ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ tornado_4 python-daemon ];
 
   # Requires tox, hadoop, and google cloud
   doCheck = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/coilmq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/coilmq/default.nix
index 11d39e411ce5..90eb1edc2cda 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/coilmq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/coilmq/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
-, stompclient, pythondaemon, redis, pid, pytest, six, click, coverage
+, stompclient, python-daemon, redis, pid, pytest, six, click, coverage
 , sqlalchemy }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "4cbfeb5ed2459df14902c1380157be6267702b1271682924cd316ccad8a29d1d";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ stompclient pythondaemon redis pid ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ stompclient python-daemon redis pid ];
   buildInputs = [ pytest six click coverage sqlalchemy ];
 
   # The teste data is not included in the distribution
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libagent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libagent/default.nix
index f70d538bb8d0..f93958860409 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libagent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libagent/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, ed25519, ecdsa , semver, mnemonic,
   unidecode, mock, pytest , backports-shutil-which, ConfigArgParse,
-  pythondaemon, pymsgbox }:
+  python-daemon, pymsgbox }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "libagent";
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ unidecode backports-shutil-which ConfigArgParse
-    pythondaemon pymsgbox ecdsa ed25519 mnemonic semver ];
+    python-daemon pymsgbox ecdsa ed25519 mnemonic semver ];
 
   checkInputs = [ mock pytest ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/salmon-mail/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/salmon-mail/default.nix
index b278d26b5dda..9486899c6061 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/salmon-mail/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/salmon-mail/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, nose, dnspython
-,  chardet, lmtpd, pythondaemon, six, jinja2, mock }:
+,  chardet, lmtpd, python-daemon, six, jinja2, mock }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "salmon-mail";
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   };
 
   checkInputs = [ nose jinja2 mock ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ chardet dnspython lmtpd pythondaemon six ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ chardet dnspython lmtpd python-daemon six ];
 
   # The tests use salmon executable installed by salmon itself so we need to add
   # that to PATH
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b2cff4940c13..d5cc27851719 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6554,7 +6554,7 @@ in {
       };
     in if isPy3k then py3 else py2;
 
-  pythondaemon = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-daemon { };
+  python-daemon = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-daemon { };
 
   sympy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sympy { };