diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
index 0658e1857174f..6740e24c3c10b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
-, isPy3k
+, pythonOlder
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , snowballstemmer
 , pytestCheckHook
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pydocstyle";
   version = "6.1.1";
-  disabled = !isPy3k;
-
   format = "setuptools";
 
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "PyCQA";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-j0WMD2qKDdMaKG2FxrrM/O7zX4waJ1afaRPRv70djkE=";
+    hash = "sha256-j0WMD2qKDdMaKG2FxrrM/O7zX4waJ1afaRPRv70djkE=";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "src/tests/test_integration.py" # runs pip install
   ];
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "pydocstyle"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Python docstring style checker";
     homepage = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index d6d09a412427c..a47c20cda1e93 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pyspotify = throw "pyspotify has been removed because Spotify stopped supporting libspotify"; # added 2022-05-29
   pytest_6 = pytest; # added 2022-02-10
   pytestcov = pytest-cov; # added 2021-01-04
+  pytest-pep257 = throw "pytest-pep257 was removed because it is abandoned and is not compatible with pydocstyle"; # added 2022-03-28
   pytest-pep8 = pytestpep8; # added 2021-01-04
   pytest-pep257 = throw "pytest-pep257 was removed, as the pep257 package was migrated into pycodestyle"; # added 2022-04-12
   pytest-pythonpath = throw "pytest-pythonpath is obsolete as of pytest 7.0.0 and has been removed"; # added 2022-03-09