diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 0f779db..a06e85d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Changelog
 Here you can see the full list of changes between each SQLAlchemy-Utils release.
 
 
+0.17.1 (2013-10-23)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Removed compat module, added total_ordering package to Python 2.6 requirements
+
+
 0.17.0 (2013-10-23)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d6b4d1f..5b5c336 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ for name, requirements in extras_require.items():
 
 setup(
     name='SQLAlchemy-Utils',
-    version='0.17.0',
+    version='0.17.1',
     url='https://github.com/kvesteri/sqlalchemy-utils',
     license='BSD',
     author='Konsta Vesterinen, Ryan Leckey, Janne Vanhala, Vesa Uimonen',
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         'six',
         'SQLAlchemy>=0.8.0',
+        'total_ordering>=0.1'
+        if sys.version_info[0] == 2 and sys.version_info[1] < 7 else ''
     ],
     extras_require=extras_require,
     cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
index 4d9b44c..0cf1f27 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ from .types import (
 )
 
 
-__version__ = '0.17.0'
+__version__ = '0.17.1'
 
 
 __all__ = (
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/compat.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/compat.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a5d2483..0000000
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/compat.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-try:
-    from functools import total_ordering
-except ImportError:
-    """ Backport to work with Python 2.6 """
-    def total_ordering(cls):
-        """Class decorator that fills in missing ordering methods"""
-        convert = {
-            '__lt__': [
-                (
-                    '__gt__',
-                    lambda self, other: not (self < other or self == other)
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__le__',
-                    lambda self, other: self < other or self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__ge__',
-                    lambda self, other: not self < other
-                )],
-            '__le__': [
-                (
-                    '__ge__',
-                    lambda self, other: not self <= other or self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__lt__',
-                    lambda self, other: self <= other and not self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__gt__',
-                    lambda self, other: not self <= other
-                )],
-            '__gt__': [
-                (
-                    '__lt__',
-                    lambda self, other: not (self > other or self == other)
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__ge__',
-                    lambda self, other: self > other or self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__le__',
-                    lambda self, other: not self > other
-                )],
-            '__ge__': [
-                (
-                    '__le__',
-                    lambda self, other: (not self >= other) or self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__gt__',
-                    lambda self, other: self >= other and not self == other
-                ),
-                (
-                    '__lt__',
-                    lambda self, other: not self >= other
-                )]
-        }
-        roots = set(dir(cls)) & set(convert)
-        if not roots:
-            raise ValueError(
-                'must define at least one ordering operation: < > <= >='
-            )
-        root = max(roots)       # prefer __lt__ to __le__ to __gt__ to __ge__
-        for opname, opfunc in convert[root]:
-            if opname not in roots:
-                opfunc.__name__ = opname
-                opfunc.__doc__ = getattr(int, opname).__doc__
-                setattr(cls, opname, opfunc)
-        return cls
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/types/weekdays.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/types/weekdays.py
index 03e47de..753e9d2 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/types/weekdays.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/types/weekdays.py
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ from sqlalchemy import types
 from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import BIT
 import six
 
-from ..compat import total_ordering
+try:
+    from functools import total_ordering
+except ImportError:
+    # Python 2.6 port
+    from total_ordering import total_ordering
 from sqlalchemy_utils import i18n