diff --git a/osc/conf.py b/osc/conf.py
index 2d11e9ce..3239cd81 100644
--- a/osc/conf.py
+++ b/osc/conf.py
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ def _build_opener(url):
 
     # workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue9639
     authhandler_class = HTTPBasicAuthHandler
-    if sys.version_info >= (2, 6, 6) and sys.version_info < (2, 7, 99) \
+    if sys.version_info >= (2, 6, 6) and sys.version_info < (2, 7, 1) \
         and not 'reset_retry_count' in dir(HTTPBasicAuthHandler):
         print('warning: your urllib2 version seems to be broken. ' \
             'Using a workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue9639', file=sys.stderr)