diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/default.nix
index e819422c572..661b7c71c33 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, isPy27, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, pythonOlder, fetchpatch, flake8, importlib-metadata, six }:
+{ lib, isPy27, isPy38, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, pythonOlder, fetchpatch, flake8, importlib-metadata, six }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "flake8-future-import";
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # Upstream disables this test case naturally on python 3, but it also fails
   # inside NixPkgs for python 2. Since it's going to be deleted, we just skip it
   # on py2 as well.
-  patches = lib.optionals isPy27 [ ./skip-test.patch ];
+  patches = lib.optionals isPy38 [ ./fix-annotations-version.patch ]
+    ++ lib.optionals isPy27 [ ./skip-test.patch ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A flake8 extension to check for the imported __future__ modules to make it easier to have a consistent code base";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/fix-annotations-version.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/fix-annotations-version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2e3062c8ac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8-future-import/fix-annotations-version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/flake8_future_import.py b/flake8_future_import.py
+index 92c3fda..27a1a66 100755
+--- a/flake8_future_import.py
++++ b/flake8_future_import.py
+@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ UNICODE_LITERALS = Feature(4, 'unicode_literals', (2, 6, 0), (3, 0, 0))
+ GENERATOR_STOP = Feature(5, 'generator_stop', (3, 5, 0), (3, 7, 0))
+ NESTED_SCOPES = Feature(6, 'nested_scopes', (2, 1, 0), (2, 2, 0))
+ GENERATORS = Feature(7, 'generators', (2, 2, 0), (2, 3, 0))
+-ANNOTATIONS = Feature(8, 'annotations', (3, 7, 0), (4, 0, 0))
++ANNOTATIONS = Feature(8, 'annotations', (3, 7, 0), (3, 10, 0))
+ 
+ 
+ # Order important as it defines the error code