diff --git a/tools/rapids-pip-wheel-version b/tools/rapids-pip-wheel-version
index 608d44a..197c4d2 100755
--- a/tools/rapids-pip-wheel-version
+++ b/tools/rapids-pip-wheel-version
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fi
 epoch_timestamp="$1"
 
 function distutilsNormalizeVersion {
-        echo -n "$(python3 -c "from setuptools.extern import packaging; print(packaging.version.Version('$1'))")"
+        echo -n "$(python3 -c "from packaging.version import Version; print(Version('$1'))")"
 }
 
 rapids-echo-stderr "pwd is $(pwd)"