diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio/don-t-install-setuptools.patch b/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio/don-t-install-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bc71443..0000000
--- a/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio/don-t-install-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-We already have setuptools python module so we will use that and not the
-one provided in this package.
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
-Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>
-
-Index: RPi.GPIO-0.2.0/setup.py
-===================================================================
---- RPi.GPIO-0.2.0.orig/setup.py	2012-05-24 13:17:31.000000000 +0300
-+++ RPi.GPIO-0.2.0/setup.py	2012-08-22 00:56:59.049001018 +0300
-@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env python
--import distribute_setup
--distribute_setup.use_setuptools()
- from setuptools import setup, find_packages
- import platform
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.2.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.5.3a.bb
similarity index 57%
rename from recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.2.0.bb
rename to recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.5.3a.bb
index 73122cd..9b0ece0 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.2.0.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/rpi-gpio_0.5.3a.bb
@@ -2,20 +2,19 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A module to control Raspberry Pi GPIO channels"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/raspberry-gpio-python/"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE.txt;md5=ee5754ae9d5f8061d6d4ccd9c9fe0061"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE.txt;md5=35af90ff2a10e8bdc967653b9dfcb22a"
 
 SRCNAME = "RPi.GPIO"
 PR = "r0"
 
 SRC_URI = "\
           http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz \
-          file://don-t-install-setuptools.patch \
           "
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
 
-inherit setuptools
+inherit distutils
 
 COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "raspberrypi"
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "0fc4bfa6aabc856b0b75252a40ac75cc"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fcfd97dc9687dde76b13b9d12c122e71b13e2ba09a62913d7b8d9ddbb3e8cabf"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9cb086d2d2186062c5ae190a40902bb0"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f3342113d39901e5af1460374ff167590c427cb55460d2bda86c72bc64efc526"