diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 9a837726ac..badf2f781b 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ swift
 sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.6,<0.7
 bzr
 httplib2
-xattr
+xattr>=0.6.0