diff --git a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/meta b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/meta
index 38ccf3a91b..ff5f795e23 100644
--- a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/meta
+++ b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="pycrypto"
-PKG_VERSION="2.3"
+PKG_VERSION="2.6"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.3-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.3-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3dcae7a6b8..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.3-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur pycrypto-2.3/setup.py pycrypto-2.3.patch/setup.py
---- pycrypto-2.3/setup.py	2010-08-27 06:41:55.000000000 +0200
-+++ pycrypto-2.3.patch/setup.py	2011-07-20 05:46:14.760364851 +0200
-@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
- __revision__ = "$Id$"
- 
- from distutils import core
--from distutils.core import Extension, Command
-+from setuptools import Extension, Command
- from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
- import os, sys
- import struct
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14af65ffce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur pycrypto-2.6/setup.py pycrypto-2.6.patch/setup.py
+--- pycrypto-2.6/setup.py	2012-05-24 14:55:30.000000000 +0200
++++ pycrypto-2.6.patch/setup.py	2012-06-03 03:58:00.599383392 +0200
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
+ 
+ from distutils import core
+ from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
+-from distutils.core import Extension, Command
++from setuptools import Extension, Command
+ from distutils.command.build import build
+ from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
+ import os, sys, re