diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5681a311a..45e875ca1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # -*- conf-mode -*-
+setuptools>=1.2			# Require this first, to prevent later errors
+#
 coverage>=3.7.1
 #cssselect>=0.6.1               # for PyQuery
 decorator>=3.4.0
@@ -19,7 +21,6 @@ python-dateutil>=2.2
 python-magic>=0.4.6
 python-memcached>=1.48		# for django.core.cache.backends.memcached
 pytz>=2014.7
-setuptools>=1.2
 six>=1.8.0
 wsgiref>=0.1.2
 xml2rfc>=2.5.0