diff --git a/setup.cfg.orig b/setup.cfg
index 1f68c92e6d5..a6a81025aa8 100644
--- a/setup.cfg.orig
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ formats = zip,gztar
 push = sdist bdist_wheel upload
 pushdocs = build_sphinx upload_sphinx
 
-[pytest]
+[tool:pytest]
 addopts = -rs --tb=native
 norecursedirs = .hg .tox _build tmp* env* benchmark stress
 minversion = 2.0
