diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ansible-lint/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ansible-lint/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed5b35e8344d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ansible-lint/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ lib
+, fetchPypi
+, buildPythonPackage
+, ansible
+, pyyaml
+, six
+, nose
+, setuptools_scm
+, ruamel_yaml
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ansible-lint";
+  version = "4.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "9430ea6e654ba4bf5b9c6921efc040f46cda9c4fd2896a99ff71d21037bcb123";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools_scm ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyyaml six ansible ruamel_yaml ];
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    patchShebangs bin/ansible-lint
+    substituteInPlace setup.cfg \
+      --replace "setuptools_scm_git_archive>=1.0" ""
+  '';
+
+  # give a hint to setuptools_scm on package version
+  preBuild = ''
+    export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION="v${version}"
+  '';
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    PATH=$out/bin:$PATH HOME=$(mktemp -d) nosetests test
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/willthames/ansible-lint";
+    description = "Best practices checker for Ansible";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.sengaya ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/ansible-lint/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/ansible-lint/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 12eee5f80862..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/ansible-lint/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pythonPackages, ansible }:
-
-pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "ansible-lint";
-  version = "3.5.1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "willthames";
-    repo = "ansible-lint";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "09qixiaqhm6dbl74s1rwxbsg31nr6jjsvr4fxfnxl9ccbxcrpzn2";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ pyyaml six ] ++ [ ansible ];
-
-  checkInputs = [ pythonPackages.nose ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    patchShebangs bin/ansible-lint
-  '';
-
-   preBuild = ''
-     export HOME="$TMP"
-   '';
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    nosetests test
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/willthames/ansible-lint";
-    description = "Best practices checker for Ansible";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.sengaya ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 903008711db8..593cd9054d9d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8301,7 +8301,7 @@ in
     ansible_2_6
     ansible_2_7;
 
-  ansible-lint = callPackage ../development/tools/ansible-lint {};
+  ansible-lint = with python3.pkgs; toPythonApplication ansible-lint;
 
   antlr = callPackage ../development/tools/parsing/antlr/2.7.7.nix { };