diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
index 646bd2e8adc7..0dcb5e87e96f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyexcel-ods/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 {
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch2,
   pyexcel-io,
   odfpy,
-  nose,
   pyexcel,
   pyexcel-xls,
   psutil,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pytest-cov,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -15,25 +17,35 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   version = "0.6.0";
   format = "setuptools";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "f61b56515fd4ccd4687f0a112422f74ce8535247ad2da49db90038d7e3ed397c";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pyexcel";
+    repo = "pyexcel-ods";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-wptjCSi56hotmiIE0TrLY7jsCHKwDR+a7d89sAQWBHg=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-ods/pull/45
+    (fetchpatch2 {
+      name = "nose-to-pytest.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-ods/compare/661d4f0b484ed281128c72e1a2701e2d33fc1879...838b410e800a86c147644568aaa8b2c005d13491.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-1a52VM8yGDEjSFXTq3Di74xwv10d/QskpctOnz9zW1w=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     pyexcel-io
     odfpy
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
-    nose
+    pytestCheckHook
+    pytest-cov
     pyexcel
     pyexcel-xls
     psutil
   ];
 
-  checkPhase = "nosetests";
-
   meta = {
     description = "Plug-in to pyexcel providing the capbility to read, manipulate and write data in ods formats using odfpy";
     homepage = "http://docs.pyexcel.org/";