diff --git a/fdroidserver/common.py b/fdroidserver/common.py
index 8fe48874..c9d3f59d 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/common.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/common.py
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ import defusedxml.ElementTree as XMLElementTree
 from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
 from binascii import hexlify
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
-from packaging.version import Version
 from queue import Queue
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
@@ -71,6 +70,7 @@ from fdroidserver import _
 from fdroidserver.exception import FDroidException, VCSException, NoSubmodulesException,\
     BuildException, VerificationException, MetaDataException
 from .asynchronousfilereader import AsynchronousFileReader
+from .looseversion import LooseVersion
 
 from . import apksigcopier, common
 
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ def find_apksigner(config):
         if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(build_tools_path, f)):
             continue
         try:
-            if Version(f) < Version(MINIMUM_APKSIGNER_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
+            if LooseVersion(f) < LooseVersion(MINIMUM_APKSIGNER_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
                 logging.debug("Local Android SDK only has outdated apksigner versions")
                 return
         except TypeError:
@@ -717,9 +717,9 @@ def test_aapt_version(aapt):
             # the Debian package has the version string like "v0.2-23.0.2"
             too_old = False
             if '.' in bugfix:
-                if Version(bugfix) < Version(MINIMUM_AAPT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
+                if LooseVersion(bugfix) < LooseVersion(MINIMUM_AAPT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
                     too_old = True
-            elif Version('.'.join((major, minor, bugfix))) < Version('0.2.4062713'):
+            elif LooseVersion('.'.join((major, minor, bugfix))) < LooseVersion('0.2.4062713'):
                 too_old = True
             if too_old:
                 logging.warning(_("'{aapt}' is too old, fdroid requires build-tools-{version} or newer!")
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 19eac953..f89ddf94 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ setup(
         'paramiko',
         'Pillow',
         'apache-libcloud >= 0.14.1',
-        'packaging',
         'pyasn1 >=0.4.1, < 0.5.0',
         'pyasn1-modules >= 0.2.1, < 0.3',
         'python-vagrant',
diff --git a/tests/common.TestCase b/tests/common.TestCase
index dc9717db..266406bc 100755
--- a/tests/common.TestCase
+++ b/tests/common.TestCase
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import unittest
 import textwrap
 import yaml
 import gzip
-from packaging.version import Version
 from zipfile import BadZipFile, ZipFile
 from unittest import mock
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ from testcommon import TmpCwd, mkdtemp
 from fdroidserver.common import ANTIFEATURES_CONFIG_NAME, CATEGORIES_CONFIG_NAME
 from fdroidserver.exception import FDroidException, VCSException,\
     MetaDataException, VerificationException
+from fdroidserver.looseversion import LooseVersion
 
 
 class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
             v = bt.split('/')[-2]
             if v == 'debian':
                 continue
-            if Version(version) < Version(v):
+            if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion(v):
                 version = v
-        if Version(version) < Version(min_version):
+        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion(min_version):
             self.skipTest('SKIPPING since build-tools %s or higher is required!' % min_version)
         fdroidserver.common.config = {'sdk_path': android_home}
         with mock.patch.dict(os.environ, clear=True):
@@ -2374,10 +2374,10 @@ class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
         import sdkmanager
         import pkg_resources
 
-        sdkmanager_version = Version(
+        sdkmanager_version = LooseVersion(
             pkg_resources.get_distribution('sdkmanager').version
         )
-        if sdkmanager_version < Version('0.6.4'):
+        if sdkmanager_version < LooseVersion('0.6.4'):
             raise unittest.SkipTest('needs fdroid sdkmanager >= 0.6.4')
 
         fdroidserver.common.config = {'sdk_path': 'placeholder'}
diff --git a/tests/update.TestCase b/tests/update.TestCase
index 97829ff8..abce3a30 100755
--- a/tests/update.TestCase
+++ b/tests/update.TestCase
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import yaml
 import zipfile
 import textwrap
 from datetime import datetime
-from packaging.version import Version
 from pathlib import Path
 from testcommon import TmpCwd, mkdtemp
 from unittest import mock
@@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ import fdroidserver.exception
 import fdroidserver.metadata
 import fdroidserver.update
 from fdroidserver.common import CATEGORIES_CONFIG_NAME
+from fdroidserver.looseversion import LooseVersion
 
 
 DONATION_FIELDS = ('Donate', 'Liberapay', 'OpenCollective')
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ class UpdateTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
                 javac = config['jarsigner'].replace('jarsigner', 'javac')
                 v = subprocess.check_output([javac, '-version'], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)[6:-1].decode('utf-8')
-                if Version(v) < Version('1.8.0_132'):
+                if LooseVersion(v) < LooseVersion('1.8.0_132'):
                     print('SKIPPING: running tests with old Java (' + v + ')')
                     return