diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/createrepo-c/createrepo-c_0.18.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/createrepo-c/createrepo-c_0.18.0.bb
index e249b767ff..d5fa38d300 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/createrepo-c/createrepo-c_0.18.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/createrepo-c/createrepo-c_0.18.0.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 DEPENDS = "expat curl glib-2.0 libxml2 openssl bzip2 zlib file sqlite3 xz rpm"
 DEPENDS:append:class-native = " file-replacement-native"
 
-inherit cmake pkgconfig bash-completion distutils3-base
+inherit cmake pkgconfig bash-completion setuptools3-base
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE = " -DPYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR} -DPYTHON_DESIRED=3 -DWITH_ZCHUNK=OFF -DENABLE_DRPM=OFF -DWITH_LIBMODULEMD=OFF"