diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/colcon-python-setup-py/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/colcon-python-setup-py/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47ccc011342b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/colcon-python-setup-py/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  colcon,
+  pytest-cov-stub,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  setuptools,
+  scspell,
+  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "colcon-python-setup-py";
+  version = "0.2.9";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "colcon";
+    repo = "colcon-python-setup-py";
+    tag = version;
+    hash = "sha256-N+OL0rSoWwZZioMV9JRvrQHdahE3fY7kKjfflUiRVL8=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    colcon
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytest-cov-stub
+    pytestCheckHook
+    scspell
+    writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "colcon_python_setup_py"
+  ];
+
+  disabledTestPaths = [
+    "test/test_flake8.py"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Extension for colcon-core to support Python packages with the metadata in the setup.py file";
+    homepage = "https://colcon.readthedocs.io/";
+    downloadPage = "https://github.com/colcon/colcon-python-setup-py";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ guelakais ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index cb0aa4b1b9c3..9674bfee9825 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2890,6 +2890,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   colcon-parallel-executor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/colcon-parallel-executor { };
 
+  colcon-python-setup-py = callPackage ../development/python-modules/colcon-python-setup-py { };
+
   colcon-recursive-crawl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/colcon-recursive-crawl { };
 
   colcon-ros-domain-id-coordinator =