diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/default.nix
index 21fe5c77fbb7..01a1f0ff0d4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/default.nix
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytest = callPackage ./tests.nix { };
   };
 
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     changelog = "https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/blob/${version}/CHANGELOG.md";
     homepage = "https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/setup-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f8c30f91ca07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/setuptools-scm/setup-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Let built package know its version.
+# Usually, when a package uses setuptools-scm as a build-time dependency, it
+# expects to get the package version from SCM data. However, while doing a nix
+# build, the source tree doesn't contain SCM data, so we should almost always
+# get the version from the derivation attribute.
+version-pretend-hook() {
+    if [ -z "$dontPretendSetuptoolsSCMVersion" -a -z "$SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION" ]; then
+        echo Setting SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION to $version
+        export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION="$version"
+    fi
+}
+
+# Include all tracked files.
+# When a package uses setuptools-scm as a build-time dependency, it usually
+# expects it to include all scm-tracked files in the built package, by default.
+# This is the official setuptools-scm behavior, documented in
+# https://setuptools-scm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/#file-finders-hook-makes-most-of-manifestin-unnecessary
+# and https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/datafiles.html.
+# However, while doing a nix build, the source tree doesn't contain SCM data,
+# so it would include only `.py` files by default.
+# We generate a MANIFEST.in automatically that includes all tracked files to
+# emulate this behavior of setuptools-scm.
+include-tracked-files-hook() {
+    if [ -z "$dontIncludeSetuptoolsSCMTrackedFiles" ]; then
+        echo Including all tracked files automatically
+        old_manifest="$(if [ -f MANIFEST.in ]; then cat MANIFEST.in; fi)"
+        echo 'global-include **' > MANIFEST.in
+        echo "$old_manifest" >> MANIFEST.in
+    fi
+}
+
+preBuildHooks+=(version-pretend-hook include-tracked-files-hook)