diff --git a/bin/dunepackaging.py b/bin/dunepackaging.py
index ac038c4494b7a635dea3db9a9fe862f28f93c916..89a6e1f09777f871f24be8959ec2cbfb82527bf5 100755
--- a/bin/dunepackaging.py
+++ b/bin/dunepackaging.py
@@ -20,16 +20,7 @@ class Data:
                 (dep[0]+str(dep[1])).replace("("," ").replace(")","")
                 for dep in description.depends
              ]
-
-        self.install_requires = []
-        try:
-            with open('python/setup.py.in', 'r') as setuppyinfile:
-                content = setuppyinfile.read()
-                if content.find('install_requires'):
-                    bracket = content.split('install_requires')[1].split('[')[1].split(']')[0]
-                    self.install_requires = [r.strip('\'"') for r in bracket.split(',')]
-        except FileNotFoundError:
-            pass
+        self.install_requires = [r[0] for r in description.python_requires]
 
 def main(argv):
 
diff --git a/cmake/modules/DuneMacros.cmake b/cmake/modules/DuneMacros.cmake
index fed9e6cb08eaf31a9f6ad6779ab015df70b673e2..08d974666ef73f6a0e2b1dd320f948adbe22a32d 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/DuneMacros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/DuneMacros.cmake
@@ -417,6 +417,13 @@ macro(dune_module_information MODULE_DIR)
 
   dune_module_to_uppercase(DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE ${DUNE_MOD_NAME})
 
+  # 5. Check for optional meta data
+  extract_line("Author:" ${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_AUTHOR "${MODULE_DIR}/dune.module")
+  extract_line("Description:" ${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_DESCRIPTION "${MODULE_DIR}/dune.module")
+  extract_line("URL:" ${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_URL "${MODULE_DIR}/dune.module")
+  extract_line("Python-Requires:" ${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_PYTHON_REQUIRES "${MODULE_DIR}/dune.module")
+  set(${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_AUTHOREMAIL "${DUNE_MAINTAINER}")
+
   # set module version
   set(${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_VERSION          "${DUNE_MOD_VERSION}")
   set(${DUNE_MOD_NAME_UPPERCASE}_VERSION_MAJOR    "${DUNE_VERSION_MAJOR}")
diff --git a/dune.module b/dune.module
index e5e93cdb608fa74da1141b6ad749d196bcf89c34..68fdbf0b05639b5a9ae4331951e315fdd4585270 100644
--- a/dune.module
+++ b/dune.module
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ Author: The Dune Core developers
 Maintainer: dune-devel@lists.dune-project.org
 Description: Basis infrastructure for all Dune modules
 URL: https://gitlab.dune-project.org/core/dune-common
+Python-Requires: portalocker mpi4py numpy
 Whitespace-Hook: Yes
diff --git a/python/dune/common/module.py b/python/dune/common/module.py
index 7dfce77beab7e1d5a59f6843bdbebfbe9fcdac59..e9639d2aedef6dca9903df503389bb2de85308e5 100644
--- a/python/dune/common/module.py
+++ b/python/dune/common/module.py
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ class Description:
 
         self.depends = parse_deps(data.get('depends'))
         self.suggests = parse_deps(data.get('suggests'))
+        self.python_requires = parse_deps(data.get('python-requires'))
 
     def __repr__(self):
         s = 'Module:          ' + self.name + '\n'
@@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ class Description:
             s += 'Depends:         ' + print_deps(self.depends) + '\n'
         if self.suggests:
             s += 'Suggests:        ' + print_deps(self.suggests) + '\n'
+        if self.python_requires:
+            s += 'Python-Requires: ' + print_deps(self.python_requires) + '\n'
         return s
 
     def __str__(self):
diff --git a/python/setup.py.in b/python/setup.py.in
index 6d5d6f1e6e6eaec3b458795db9c4f3782c17c2c3..d15c27cf67d812dfe2347a1360be0e0d07c6fb84 100644
--- a/python/setup.py.in
+++ b/python/setup.py.in
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-setup(name="dune-common",
+setup(name="${DUNE_MOD_NAME}",
     namespace_packages=['dune'],
-    description="Python lib for dune",
+    description="${DUNE_COMMON_DESCRIPTION}",
     version="${DUNE_COMMON_VERSION}",
-    author="Andreas Dedner and Martin Nolte",
+    author="${DUNE_COMMON_AUTHOR}",
+    author_email="${DUNE_COMMON_AUTHOREMAIL}",
     packages = find_packages(),
     zip_safe = 0,
     package_data = {'': ['*.so']},
-    install_requires = ['portalocker','mpi4py','numpy']
+    install_requires = "${DUNE_COMMON_PYTHON_REQUIRES}".split(' ')
   )