diff --git a/congress/policy/builtin/congressbuiltin.py b/congress/policy/builtin/congressbuiltin.py
index b9bac2f59..c5c9e7de0 100755
--- a/congress/policy/builtin/congressbuiltin.py
+++ b/congress/policy/builtin/congressbuiltin.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from datetime import timedelta
 
-from thirdparty.dateutil import parser as datetime_parser
+from thirdparty_dateutil import parser as datetime_parser
 
 
 class DatetimeBuiltins(object):
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index f2500d065..2bc8b0cf6 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ classifier =
 packages =
     congress
     antlr3
+    thirdparty_dateutil
 
 [global]
 setup-hooks =
diff --git a/thirdparty/__init__.py b/thirdparty/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1187e3e23..000000000
--- a/thirdparty/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Copyright (c) 2003-2010  Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>
-
-This module offers extensions to the standard python 2.3+
-datetime module.
-"""
-__author__ = "Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>"
-__license__ = "Simplified BSD"
-__version__ = "2.0"
diff --git a/thirdparty_dateutil b/thirdparty_dateutil
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..d7248a58a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty_dateutil
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+thirdparty/dateutil/
\ No newline at end of file