diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 324c33c03..4424904be 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 *.orig
 *.pyc
 *.pyo
-/*.egg
+/.eggs
 /Comics
 /build
 /dist
diff --git a/dosagelib/__init__.py b/dosagelib/__init__.py
index b082fc6a2..24dd38b31 100644
--- a/dosagelib/__init__.py
+++ b/dosagelib/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Tristan Seligmann and Jonathan Jacobs
 # Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
+# Copyright (C) 2015 Tobias Gruetzmacher
 """
 Automated comic downloader. Dosage traverses comic websites in
 order to download each strip of the comic. The intended use is for
@@ -13,8 +14,8 @@ The primary interface is the 'dosage' commandline script.
 Comic modules for each comic are located in L{dosagelib.plugins}.
 """
 
-from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+from pbr.version import VersionInfo
 
 AppName = u'dosage'
-dist = get_distribution(AppName)
-__version__ = dist.version # PEP 396
+version_info = VersionInfo(AppName)
+__version__ = version_info.version_string() # PEP 396
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 856cb4577..922f47b4c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 requests>=2.0
+pbr