diff --git a/src/rosdistro/vcs.py b/src/rosdistro/vcs.py
index 76448a1e..795428f4 100644
--- a/src/rosdistro/vcs.py
+++ b/src/rosdistro/vcs.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 import re
 import subprocess
 
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import parse
 
 
 class Git(object):
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def version_gte(cls, version):
         if not cls._client_version:
             result = cls().command('--version')
             cls._client_version = result['output'].split()[-1]
-        return LooseVersion(cls._client_version) >= LooseVersion(version)
+        return parse(cls._client_version) >= parse(version)
 
 
 def ref_is_hash(ref):