diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 1ac779195312..4d24315413de 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -194,8 +194,8 @@ let pythonPackages = python.modules // rec {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [logilabCommon];
   };
 
-  beautifulsoap = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "beautifulsoap-3.0.8";
+  beautifulsoup = buildPythonPackage (rec {
+    name = "beautifulsoup-3.0.8";
 
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/3.x/BeautifulSoup-3.0.8.tar.gz";
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ let pythonPackages = python.modules // rec {
       description = "Undemanding HTML/XML parser";
     };
   });
+  beautifulsoap = builtins.trace "beatifulsoap is a typo" beautifulsoup;
 
 
   # euca2ools (and maybe Nova) needs boto 1.9, 2.0 doesn't work.