diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tarman/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tarman/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..305daecc8de5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tarman/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, isPy3k
+, unittest2
+, nose
+, mock
+, libarchive
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "0.1.3";
+  pname = "tarman";
+
+  disabled = isPy3k;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0ri6gj883k042xaxa2d5ymmhbw2bfcxdzhh4bz7700ibxwxxj62h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ unittest2 nose mock ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libarchive ];
+
+  # tests are still failing
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/matejc/tarman;
+    description = "Archive manager with curses interface";
+    license = licenses.bsd0;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 032c1ced8d15..df0c57efcd2c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4234,24 +4234,7 @@ in {
 
   tunigo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tunigo { };
 
-  tarman = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.1.3";
-    name = "tarman-${version}";
-
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/t/tarman/tarman-${version}.zip";
-      sha256 = "0ri6gj883k042xaxa2d5ymmhbw2bfcxdzhh4bz7700ibxwxxj62h";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ unittest2 nose mock ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ libarchive ];
-
-    # tests are still failing
-    doCheck = false;
-  };
-
+  tarman = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tarman { };
 
   libarchive = self.python-libarchive; # The latter is the name upstream uses
   python-libarchive = buildPythonPackage rec {